A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

Introduction -- Insects, spiders, and people -- Scope and arrangement of this guide -- Classification -- What is an insect? -- The body plan of insects and entognaths -- Growth and development of ...

Washington D.C., April 17, 2002 – An international team of scientists announced today the first discovery of a new insect order since 1915. The discovery will be posted on tomorrow’s Science Express ...

For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

Click to open image viewer. Mantophasma zephyra (Klass, Zompro, Kristensen, Adis, 2002) or the West Wind Gladiator, one of several recently described species of a new order of carnivorous insects from ...

An international research team including the University of Göttingen has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the stick and ...