Associate Professor and Curator of Insects, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Insects are everywhere – in backyards, balconies and the park down the street. In fact, numerically ...

Did you know maggots can paint, or what fried mealworms taste like - or even what a roach feels like crawling across your hand? Those are just a few of the things third graders could learn at the ...

Akito Y. Kawahara is an associate professor and curator of insects at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. Megan Ennes is an assistant curator of museum education at the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) -- Critters invaded Union Terminal for the Cincinnati Museum Center's Annual Bugfest. The museum center teamed up with the zoo and the University of Cincinnati to celebrate bugs and ...

More than 1,000 third graders from across Tulsa spent Thursday learning about insects up close during the Exploring Insects event hosted by Tulsa Master Gardeners and OSU at Expo Square. TULSA, Okla. ...

Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research from the University of Adelaide. Students who ...

During the hectic holiday season, gardening may be last thing on the to do list. Yet, there is no better place to spend some time with a child. Gardens offer entertainment, fresh air and a chance to ...

Rhiannon Giles Durham’s 11-year-old daughter has a common fear of bees and spiders: cautious because of the sting-and-bite potential but recognizing that if the critters are treated with respect, they ...

We've all noticed how much insects love to fly around lights. But why? Many answers have been proposed; some have suggested that insects have a direct attraction to the light itself; others have said ...

Camper Ceceila Ross winces at the stink bug crawling up her arm at the Insect Safari camp at the Alaska Botanical Garden on June 21, 2023. (Maria Koop/Alaska Public Media) Lunchtime just finished, and ...