Introduction -- Insects, spiders, and people -- Scope and arrangement of this guide -- Classification -- What is an insect? -- The body plan of insects and entognaths -- Growth and development of ...

Click to open image viewer. Mantophasma zephyra (Klass, Zompro, Kristensen, Adis, 2002) or the West Wind Gladiator, one of several recently described species of a new order of carnivorous insects from ...

Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...

An international research team including the University of Göttingen has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the stick and ...

Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that ...

A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.