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CAUGHT THE BUG. AS LONG AS I HAVE A BUG, AS LONG AS I HAVE A BROKEN WATCH, I CAN PROBABLY PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER. WILL SOME PEOPLE SQUASH THEM? MIKE LIBBEY OF PORTLAND, MAINE CELEBRATES THEM. THE GUTS ...

An insect researcher is speaking out about an insect he encountered at an Arkansas Walmart that he misidentified for several years but recently discovered was a rare specimen from the Jurassic period.

A new bug is joining the shelves of the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s 7-million-strong insect collection, one made not of antennae and exoskeleton, but of wires and lenses: “Lightning Bug,” a ...

Century-old museum specimens hold clues to how global climate change will affect a common insect pest that can weaken and kill trees -- and the news is not good. "Recent studies found that scale ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A giant insect plucked from the façade of an Arkansas Walmart has set historic records. The Polystoechotes punctata or giant lacewing is the first of its kind recorded in ...

A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens. When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his laboratory, Robert Fisher ...

A first-of-its-kind study used herbarium specimens to track insect herbivory across more than a century, and found that, across four species -- shagbark hickory (Carya ovata), swamp white oak (Quercus ...

This Halloween season, learn how the National Museum of Natural History’s dermestid beetle colony transforms decaying animal carcasses into spotless skeletons. Emma Saaty The Smithsonian’s Osteo Prep ...