entmain copy 39088019137645 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents 1. The evolution of ideas on insect metamorphosis -- 2. A spectacular diversity of forms and ...

The open oceans are harsh and hostile environments where insects might not be expected to thrive. In fact, only one insect group, ocean skaters, or water striders, has adapted to life on the open seas ...

Quick Take Achieving a $20,000 valuation requires antique insect collections to meet strict preservation standards. Missing ...

Step outside on any day of the year, at any time of day, and something small, very small, with translucent wings or several legs or a thorax or compound eyes or antennae is probably, strike that, most ...

A stunning array of insects catch the light behind a glass pane where they hover on pegs above yellowed tags. The sheen of their fibrous wings and the careful posing of their articulated limbs make ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life — including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 called ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life, including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 called ...

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The Lord Howe Stick Insect is glossy black and can be up to seven inches long. For decades, it was believed to be extinct, until a small population was found on a tiny island off of the coast of ...