This is not good news for entomophobia sufferers. A former park ranger traveling in New Zealand has stumbled across the world's largest insect, a Weta Bug, with a wing span of seven inches and the ...

The giant water bug measures more than 3 inches from top to bottom and an inch-and-a-half across, making it one of the largest insects in all of North America and one of the largest aquatic insects in ...

More than 190 critically endangered, captive-bred Māhoenui giant wētā were translocated to Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari in New Zealand, wildlife officials said. Lucy Schultz Screen grab of ...

Growing global demand for food is putting a squeeze on available land and one French start-up says it has the answer: indoor insect farming.

Researchers found a new Acrophylla alta species of stick bug in the high-altitude rainforests of northern Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

From a garage full of caterpillars, Carl A. Olson spent the last 38 years curating the state’s largest insect collection Ascending to the fourth floor of the Forbes Building at the UA, you are ...

U.S. grain trader and processor Archer Daniels Midland Co and French biotech company InnovaFeed announced plans on Thursday to build the world's largest insect protein plant in Decatur, Illinois.

Many wild and interesting bugs call Texas home. From our state insect (the monarch butterfly!) to Texas red-headed centipedes (which are just as scary as they sound), Texas is a haven for bug lovers.