The petrol-blue wings of a swallowtail butterfly, soft fur of a giant Patagonian bumblebee, and oil-painted smudges of a ladybug are some of the details captured by British photographer Levon Biss in ...

Imagine you are flipped upside down and standing on your head. After a few seconds, you would feel pressure in your head due to an increased blood flow. Humans and other vertebrates are known to have ...

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 ...

In the early 1900s, photographer David Fairchild trained his camera on a part of the world most of us ignore: The insects under our feet. His resulting body of work, published in 1913 in National ...

This project was created in order to take pictures of insects in flight using an additional optical lens system to peek for insects in focus. This project was created in order to take pictures of ...

image: The environmental setting is semi-arid at the shores of a lagoon. A mayfly (Coxoplectoptera) rests on a shoot of a flowering plant. One of the flowers is being pollinated by a wasp Cretosphex ...

Through stunning, high magnification photographs and clear explanatory text, insect expert Chinery (a British naturalist, lecturer and author of several Collins Guides to insects) introduces readers ...

These spectacular images have modest roots: a photographer's son finding bugs in the garden. Levon Biss is known for his breathtaking portraits, from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino to Olympic track star ...

AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...