With more than 350,000 described species, and many more still waiting to be discovered, beetles are among the most diverse and resilient creatures on Earth, thriving in nearly every environment from ...

This is not good news for entomophobia sufferers. A former park ranger traveling in New Zealand has stumbled across the world's largest insect, a Weta Bug, with a wing span of seven inches and the ...

Possibly one of the most terrifying flying insects that you’re ever likely to encounter is the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia). Asian giant hornets have a wingspan of around three inches and a ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of stick insect believed to be the heaviest in the country, weighing the same as a golf ball. The remote rainforest in Far North Queensland, ...

More than 190 critically endangered, captive-bred Māhoenui giant wētā were translocated to Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari in New Zealand, wildlife officials said. Lucy Schultz Screen grab of ...

Until recently, Iceland was the only country in the world to be free of one of the most maddening and dangerous insects: ...