The Northern Territory's most significant collection of preserved insects has opened its doors to the NT Field Naturalists' ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on fossil leaves from South ...

Human activities and natural disasters have caused the extinction of many animals ... and female stick insects named Adam and Eve were transported to a zoo in Melbourne, Australia, where they ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia ... insects. Moths and their larvae provide a fat and protein-rich food source for many animals ...

The oldest winged fossil dates back 330 million years ago, suggesting that insects were among the first animals to leave the oceans for land during the Devonian period some 400 million years ago.

As night falls over Australia's forests ... eats scale insects. Moths and their larvae provide a fat and protein-rich food source for many animals, including humans. Once so abundant they famously ...

according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on fossil leaves from South America that is nearly identical to what is seen today on those trees' living relatives in Australia.