When first asked to review Michael Engel's new book, "Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth," I expected that what I would read would be reminiscent of Engel's ...

Imagine a world without insects. You might breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of mosquito-free summers, or you might worry about how agriculture will function without pollinators. What you ...

Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...

In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking. I am an avid reader and have devoured many books over the years, especially science fiction. For me, ...

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life — including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 called ...

As a scientist, I applaud the High Desert Museum for its educational exhibition, Endangered in the High Desert, which focuses on the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. Since I first saw a ...

Peter Kuper’s book-length comic, Insectopolis: A Natural History, begins with an entomologist and her brother walking to the New York Public Library to see an exhibition on insects entitled ...

A snail, eyestalks pulsing with coloured stripes, leaves the safety of the shade and oozes its way onto an exposed leaf, where it catches the beady eye of a bird. The larger animal mistakes those ...

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. INSECT BOOK : A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE BEES WASPS ANTS GRASSHOPPERS FLIES AND OTHER NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS EXCLUSIVE OF THE ...