Have you ever found yourself looking at the insects of the Paleozoic era, including the dragonfly Meganeuropsis permiana with its 71 cm wingspan and wondered what it would be like to have one as a pet ...

Gloucester’s lament in “King Lear”—“As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods; / They kill us for their sport”—isn’t cited in “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects,” ...

Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never seen before: an insect urinating. Although nearly impossible to see, the insect formed an almost perfectly round droplet on its ...

On a routine trip to an Arkansas Walmart to pick up milk, a university scientist made a historically buggy discovery. Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State University's Insect Identification Lab, ...

Tiny insects known as sharpshooters excrete by catapulting urine drops at incredible accelerations. Their excretion is the first example of superpropulsion discovered in a biological system.