Downtown Riverside will be bugging out Saturday for the 11th annual “Insect Fair,” featuring an assortment of creepy crawlers for people to see, touch and possibly taste. The UC Riverside Department ...

Pueblo County CSU-Extension Office horticulture specialist Amanda Weidner writes about insects that are your allies in the ...

Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...

Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse will be released in theaters on June 4, 2027, Sony Pictures announced at their CinemaCon presentation Monday. The first photos from the highly anticipated movie ...

Japanese beetles can cause major damage to your garden. This guide explains how to get rid of Japanese beetles without ...

Parasitoid wasps sometimes lay eggs in unsuitable host insects, a behavior that has traditionally been considered accidental.

They crawl, they control, and they kill—without a sound. These real-life parasites turn their hosts into pawns in a ...

As human activity alters the environment, kissing bugs and parasites will ultimately adapt. The geographic range of infected ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests.