The majority of insects are considered beneficial or harmless. Of course, those are the ones we want to have hanging around.

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Brookhaven National Lab has received some noisy guests this summer—a brood of cicadas that have been incubating for the last 17 years.

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Although it won’t be like 2024’s “cicada-geddon,” some in the U.S. will see another round of the noisy insects again this year. Brood XIV is more spread out than some others ...

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true ...

Unless you’ve been to the Upper Cape and parts of the Mid Cape over the last week or so, it may be hard to imagine the ...

This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees and butterflies visit a ...

For the past several weeks, periodical cicadas have emerged in the wooded areas around my home. Their singing filled the air, ...

Kristy Gallo, an ambassador with the nonprofit environmental organization The Xerces Society, shared more about fireflies in ...

Fireflies need moisture, food, shelter and darkness to thrive. Here are a few things to do in your yard to help fireflies, ...

There is no finer place to savor the opening of the door of the day than Tanque Alegre.  Twilight chorus of summer cicadas ...

Summer bugs are back in action across the U.S. as more people share videos of cicadas, lanternflies and ticks. As NBC News' ...