Why Insects Matter: Earth's Most Essential Species

There's a good chance insects have made themselves at home in your home. What should you do about them?

Discovering the unique properties of insects that distinguish them from mammals and all other animals.

Exploring the fascinating lifecycle and migration journey of the beautiful monarch butterfly.

Exploring efficiencies in insect communication and actions at the individual and group levels.

Exploring why beetles are one of the most successful groups of any organism alive today.

Exploring the complexities of pollinators and the many types of pollination they perform.

Discovering the diversity of strategies insects develop to feed on plants.

Discovering why understanding the insect lifecycle is a better investment than pesticides.

Discovering the many methods used to try to cure insect-borne diseases.

Exploring the fascinating coevolutionary dance between plants and insects.

Exploring the relationship between insectivorous animals and their prey.

Understanding why many scientists and dietitians believe insects might be the food of our future.

Discovering the efficient predatory adaptations of insects from mantids to assassin bugs.

Exploring some insects that inject their eggs into the bodies of other insects and animals.

Learning how insects play a crucial role as decomposers of dead organic matter.

Exploring the unique physiology that gives insects precise control and maneuverability in the air.

Exploring the respiratory physiology that allows insects to maintain oxygenation underwater.

Assessing the significance of sound for crickets, katydids, cicadas, and other insects.

Discovering how insects were using agriculture more than 50 million years before our arrival.

Exploring discoveries made in the field of genetics using fruit flies and peppered moths.

Exploring how conflicting emotions about insects are reflected in our arts.

Learning everything one needs to know about starting an insect collection.

Discovering the human activities that have a disproportionate impact on insects.

Discovering some of the exciting work done in a wide variety of fields to learn from insects.