Carroll County is considering starting a forest stewardship program, setting aside county land near Hashawha Park to use for forest growth.

If you’ve ever wondered what heaven looks like for someone who loves bugs, The Insect Asylum in Chicago is probably it. This peculiar little museum in Logan Square celebrates the six-legged, the ...

Scientists created the largest 3D archive of ant anatomy ever assembled, scanning nearly 2,200 specimens across almost 800 ...

A thin band of light from Cristian Lucanas's headlamp pierces the blackness of a Philippine rainforest as he digs through the ...

A sweeping review of nearly 100,000 insect and arachnid species in North America has revealed a surprising and troubling reality: scientists lack even basic conservation assessments for the vast ...

Early spring is an ideal time to enjoy the newly created trails. The season brings many of Indiana’s earliest native wildflowers — known as spring ephemerals — including the drooping trillium, ...

Ants trapped in amber reveal possible partnerships and parasites, offering a rare glimpse into ecosystems from nearly 100 ...

You may know the Insect Asylum as a quirky storefront in Logan Square where you can explore a whole underrecognized phylum and boop a possum snout all in the same day, but its coolness goes even ...

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

Researchers studied six pieces of amber containing fossilized ants with other insects nearby revealing an ecosystem in the ...

In the warm, humid savannahs and forests of sub-Saharan Africa dwells a tribe of flower beetles in the genus Golianthus, ...