When people think of bugs they generally think of gross pests that need to be kept at a distance. The farther away, the better. But insects, especially flying ones, have a strange, gross beauty to ...

Beetles display a wide range of colors, from deep muted tones to those that shift from green to purple or yellow as they ...

Insects are all over the world, and they’re one of the most diverse groups, with millions of different species living in virtually every habitat possible. They come in various different forms, from ...

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Remote-controlled cockroaches are thing of the past, practically considered peasantry by the remote-controlled insect community, if such a thing were to exist. Well, not really, but why settle for ...

Millions of years ago, oversized insects such as griffinflies boasting wingspans comparable to today's hawks scuttled across (and fluttered above) the planet. But why these jumbo jets of the insect ...

WASHINGTON -- Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that's not exactly what's going on, a new study ...

The beetles seem to be acting differently now: Instead of flying only in the late summer, some of the bugs are taking advantage of warmer spring and fall weather to fly between May and October. "And ...

Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...

KSAT Connect viewers captured stunning images of rainbows, quick downpours and more after Sunday afternoon’s storms. Flying insects were seen after record-breaking ...

Last week felt like I should have been working in the garden, flying a kite, or wade fishing for crappie. Other than the two ...