Many people use 'bug' and 'insect' interchangeably. Scientifically, insects are a broad class. True bugs are a specific order within insects, known as Hemiptera. They have unique piercing-sucking ...

Insects are all around us. As one of the most diverse groups of organisms on this planet, they comprise well over half of all known animal diversity on Earth. Insects carry out many services in the ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) --"The creator must have had an inordinate fondness for beetles." Dr. David Furth recalls his favorite quote as he walks into a room filled with the hard-shelled insects. Some are the ...

The terms "bug" and "insect" are commonly used interchangeably in everyday language, yet scientifically, they refer to distinct categories of creatures. Insects belong to the vast class Insecta, ...