DR James Logan screws up his face as he gets a whiff of a cockroach’s insides. “That doesn’t smell good,” he grimaces. “What has this been eating?” Cutting open an insect’s digestive tract is not for ...

The natural world is filled with creatures so bizarre that they often look more extraterrestrial than earthly. Among them, insects easily take the crown. These bugs may look like dead leaves, others ...

When looking to other creatures for signs of intelligence, insects are rarely the most obvious candidates, but as the historian Thomas Moynihan writes, it wasn't always so. What can the early-20th ...

In this three-part series of Insect Worlds, Steve Backshall explores the insects and their close relatives, the arachnids and crustaceans. The series explores the intricate and at times bizarre ...