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 ...

I think I was in elementary school when I first looked closely at bugs' eyes. They were in close-up photos of various insects on the covers of school notebooks known collectively as "Japonica ...

Most insects, like this dragonfly, see using many small, hexagonal sections in their eyes called ommatidium. Each ommatidium acts independently, like a one-pixel picture. The insect's brain then ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Insect Week runs from 19 to 25 June and you can find out more details or enter the new photographic competition on their website. This is a selection of the pictures that caught the judges' eye.

A self-taught photographer has been capturing the "alien world" of insects. Lee Frost, from Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, said he liked taking the macro images "of what's just around us".