People are eating insects for fun, and we want to know why anyone would ever voluntarily put a bug in their mouth. We're not talking about eating them for the wow factor like kids do with scorpion ...

University of Maryland entomology professor Raymond St. Leger has discovered how to use scorpion genes to create a hypervirulent fungus that can kill specific insect pests, including mosquitoes that ...

As far as college cliques go, one crowd that hangs out on the University of Delaware’s South Campus is pretty typical. There is the popular one. There is the shy one. There is the model citizen who ...

The proteins that prevent viral, bacterial or fungal infections in insects are similar in structure to stinging proteins in scorpions. Removing a tiny loop on one defensive insect protein changed the ...

An eastern lubber grasshopper, or Romalea guttata sits on a leaf at the Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Photos by Jenny Marder. And now, an end-of-the-week pause to celebrate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you’re an Arizona native or just visiting, you've almost certainly wondered about scorpions. About 40 to 60 species of ...

Fables have long cast scorpions as bad-natured killers of hapless turtles that naively agree to ferry them across rivers. Scientists, however, see them in a different light. Insect toxicologists and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Goliath stick insects (Eurycnema goliath) are among the largest and heaviest insects in Australia, with females reaching 7 inches ...

As we pass through winter’s halfway point, one of nature’s toughest pests has begun stirring: Scorpions. In fact, due to the lower temperatures this time of year that are the total opposite of their ...

In Southeast Asia and elsewhere, insects have long been an integral part of the human diet, and nowadays scorpions can be ordered on skewers, while ants fill spring rolls and silkworms star in ...

An entomology professor has discovered how to use scorpion genes to create a hypervirulent fungus that can kill specific insect pests, including mosquitoes that carry malaria and a beetle that ...