When I was little, I loved chasing butterflies. It’s fun to run after them as they flit and flutter. But I didn’t eat them. I asked my friend Rich Zack if that was an oversight. He’s an insect ...

Despite their variety today, all winged insects share a similar body plan, honed over 300 million years of evolution. Each has a thorax in three segments, with a pair of legs on each segment, and a ...

More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...

MUCH has been written relative to the morphology of the insect thorax and its appendages, but few of the contributions of recent years have led to any modification of tho present-day conceptions of ...

All winged insects look more or less the same: a main thorax that’s split into three segments, two legs on each segment, and four wings. But there’s one exception, and it’s spectacularly weird. Meet ...

With their proportionately bulky bodies supported by puny wings, many flying insects look about as airworthy as a Mack truck. French Zoologist Antoine Magnan once studied bumblebees for several years, ...

Treehoppers are a group of insects distinguished by their impressive head ornamentation -- called a "helmet" -- which often stretches back along the length of their body. The helmets come in a wide ...