At Brazil's Butantan Institute, Ricardo Bassini-Silva identified mite larvae feeding on a millimeter-scale specimen in the museum's archive.

What looked like a pearl necklace on a tiny spider turned out to be parasitic mite larvae. Scientists identified the mites as a new species, marking the first record of its family in Brazil. The ...

If there’s one thing MacKenzie-Childs is going to do, it’s making sure that all the decor is whimsy and cute. The ...

As the world’s largest museum group, the Smithsonian comprises 21 museums and the National Zoo. Each year, its museums unveil ...

That’s exactly what happens at Union Street Antiques in Rochester, New Hampshire – a veritable Aladdin’s cave where yesterday ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

Have you ever heard of the iconic leaf insect? Worth hundreds—even thousands—of dollars, these fascinating bugs can ...

The inclusions are so faint in the unpolished amber that Goethe, despite his interest in observing nature, likely never realized he had insects preserved inside what amount to biological time capsules ...

Pinned and labeled eastern Hercules beetles are part of the Virginia Tech collection. Virginia Tech entomology professor Paul Marek looks through bits of folded paper containing backlogged insects ...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s Fashion Commission and global luxury group Kering have launched the "Kering Generation Award X MENA" across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for 2026.The announcement was ...

Cicadas are back in full swing in Southern Arizona, but according to University of Arizona entomologists, they’ve arrived later than usual and in lower numbers. These big, buzzing bugs, which ...

Cicadas, those large and loud-buzzing harbingers of summer, are piercing the silence in parks and back yards across the Tucson area this month. The big bugs, which are typically out and buzzing from ...