Do you know the names of all the insects? Let's check this out in the online game Find Insect Names. You will see a picture with an insect, as well as several cells in which you need to insert letters ...

Edible insects are often portrayed as something of ... with large buckets for the very popular chapulines - the colloquial name for a pleasingly lemony species of grasshopper.

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

The name 'centipede' means '100 legs,' but studies show that these insects can have anywhere between 15 and 177 pairs of legs, one pair for each body segment. All these legs come in handy.

We associate insect ingestion with reality television shows like Fear Factor, which week-after-week portrays contestants wolfing down everything from live cockroaches to plump caterpillars.

These noxious emissions can kill other insects, or startle potential predators into backing off. These chemical “bombs” are the source of their name: Bombardier beetles. But there’s not just ...