They appear at your porch light. They thud against windows. They dive-bomb you during evening walks. June bugs are out in full force in Texas.

The colorful lights of fireflies winked and blinked as afternoon shadows gave way to dusk. Mamaw and Papaw’s Neshoba County farmyard teemed with cousins creating their own brand of fun.

The Southeast Asian insects masquerade as flowers to attract prey. Photograph by Alex Hyde, Nature Picture Library He discovered that Lapkiewicz had a track record in the U.S. too. Two months ...

A young male nicknamed Joker was probably the first to start carrying a howler monkey baby on his back for days on end. Then a group of other young males started to copy him. Here a white-faced ...

This spring's chilly and rainy weather sidelined insects too, but a Charlottetown-based research scientist says that will change quickly now that the mercury is rising. "They tend to stay quiet ...

Lightning bugs will be the stars of the show at the Western Kentucky Botanical Garden on June 3 when families gather for the Know and Glow Firefly Festival, an event blending science, nature, and ...

Summer is when certain insects become active and have the potential to cause problems for some plants. This is the time of the year when you will start to see holes in the leaves of particular plants.

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Mr. Fix It Lou Manfredini has tips on dealing with summer bugs. Love the WGN Morning News? We love you, too. And you can have all the hijinks delivered to your inbox every weekday morning.

A woman called 911 March 24 requesting that the city spray for what she called the invasion of insects. Dispatches advised her that 911 was not for calls about midges and gave her the non ...

Look around and you’ll find bugs everywhere! From hot and humid rain forest habitats to snowy mountain ranges and just about everywhere in between, it turns out there’s an estimated 10 quintillion (10 ...

Bed bugs and humans go way back – possibly further than most people would care to know. Around 60,000 years ago, a few adventurous bed bugs decided to latch onto Neanderthals who were emerging from ...