Leave the Leaves campaigns aim to provide food and shelter for insects at a time when studies show drastic population declines.

Here are just a few of the misleading names we commonly use for foods, animals, inventions, historical events, and more.

As night falls, the trees in the valley are illuminated, as if adorned with fairy lights. These ‘fairy lights’ are, in fact, bioluminescent insects – fireflies. The end of May and the beginning of ...

“No soap provided at hand wash sink.” “Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. Observed: - approximately 10 flying insects landing on ...

“I think it’s fireflies you see.” Turned out that George Blaikie, a 14-year Ontario boy, was actually flying his kite at night. He and friends attached a protected lantern device on their ...

But because firefly remains from this period can be difficult to come by since the insects' softer bodies don't preserve well in the fossil record, the evolution of the beetles and their ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, a research team used lasers strapped to a flying robot to uncover two cities buried and lost ...

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...

When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were also some similarities. And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly ...