Minute insects, from the Australian National Insect Collection, have been super sized by up to forty times using a novel 3D scanning system and printed using a state of the art 3D printer. The 3D bugs ...

The dried larvae of the yellow mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor) are comparable to beef or poultry in nutritional value, but the mealworm has a far smaller ecological footprint. It was recently ...

A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to researchers. They hope to borrow the tricks of this piece of ...

The serious bug collector will tell you that no entomological compendium is ever truly complete. Even the most vivid color-wheels of butterflies are missing something—often many somethings—either ...

One cannot help but admire the artist’s approach to the insect world in her collection called The Tactile Anatomy Series. While many may reduce bugs to biological objects or ornamental forms, the ...

Insects outnumber humans, and indeed almost all animals, in the number of organisms belonging to this class. Scientists say they make up over 950,000 insect species, with about 25,000 being bees, ...

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THE general features of this study in insect anatomy have already been noticed (NATURE, vol. xliii. p. 77). Part II. describes the exoskeleton in considerable detail, and contains many useful and ...