Nymphs (juvenile spotted lanternflies) are black with white spots, then become red with black spots as they develop. Adults are roughly 1 inch long and half-inch wide. Their brown forewings have black ...

Here’s the thing about winter: while you’re bundling up and sipping hot cocoa, there’s an entire hidden world beneath your ...

There are over 3,000 stick insect species, including a recently discovered species in Australia’s Wet Tropics. Learn more ...

A university student was caught trying to smuggle more than 100 insects, many of them protected species, out of Australia, officials said. The student, identified by Australia’s 7NEWS as a 22-year-old ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

An international student has been fined $35,000 after trying to smuggle 125 Aussie creepy crawlies out of the country.

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Insect smuggling rarely grabs headlines, yet it has real consequences. The trades draw far less public concern than big‑animal crime.

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Australia's photographic natural database is about to get a big boost as citizen scientists are urged to join a national ...