On a routine trip to an Arkansas Walmart to pick up milk, a university scientist made a historically buggy discovery. Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State University's Insect Identification Lab, ...

The next time you hop into a lake and feel a painful pinch on your toe, it could be a giant water bug. These bugs, also known as Lethocerus americanus, belong to the Belostomatidae family. They are ...

Matthew Gimmel, curator of entomology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History recently published the discovery of expanded migration of the giant swallowtail butterfly and the giant sphinx moth ...

Along the southern edge of the United States sits the state of Alabama. While it may be home to over five million people, much of the state is covered by forests (67% of the state’s total area, to be ...

Giant giant peacock moth on branch. About 300 million years ago, insects were scales larger than they are today: a shudder-inducing thought for anyone with entomophobia. Griffinflies, for instance, ...

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.

A giant bug found on the wall of an Arkansas Walmart turns out to be a very rare insect not seen in the area for decades. A giant, flying bug plucked from the outside wall of an Arkansas Walmart has ...

A 2012 trip to a Fayetteville, Arkansas, Walmart to pick up some milk turned out to be one for the history books. A giant bug that stopped a scientist in his tracks as he walked into the store and he ...