A “smiling” damselfly and shimmering beetle captivated judges in the Royal Entomological Society’s 2024 Photography Competition ...

"When a dragonfly hunts, it hovers perfectly still and positions itself between its prey and a shadow cast behind it by, say, ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

That’s why bug bite pictures (or identifying insect bites pictures) are so important. Being able to compare what’s happening on your skin against photos of other people who have been bitten ...

Users of the iNaturalist app - scientists and park staff but also visitors and even kids - have logged 6,939 species in the Great Smoky Mountains.

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. If there were a competition for the world’s weirdest insect, treehoppers would have a clear shot at first place.

“There are a ton of pictures of bugs on flowers or maybe pollinating flowers, for example. The data from iNaturalist is not only helping us to know what species are in the park, where they are ...