Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous...

from landing or climbing on that surface. Insect repellents help prevent and control the outbreak of insect-borne (and other arthropod-bourne) diseases...

Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is similar to that used for other...

Insect fighting is a range of competitive sporting activity, commonly associated with gambling, in which insects are pitted against each other. Forms of...

The Insect Trust was an American jazz-based rock band that formed in New York, United States, in 1967. The members of the band were Nancy Jeffries on...

state insect and state butterfly, etc.). Iowa and Michigan are the two states without a designated state insect. More than half of the insects chosen...

Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. In older literature, such as Imms, "crickets"...

2010s, reports emerged about the widespread decline in insect populations across multiple insect orders. The reported severity shocked many observers,...

Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the...

planet, with over a million species identified so far. The title of heaviest insect in the world has many contenders, the most frequently crowned of which is...

Insects are the only group of invertebrates that have evolved wings and flight. Insects first flew in the Carboniferous, some 300 to 350 million years...

Insect pheromones are neurotransmitters that serve the chemical communication between individuals of an insect species. They thus differ from kairomones...

2015, 2017 and most recently in 2019 Insect Festival has been held in and around the Hospitium building in York Museum Gardens with over 1000 visitors...

ἔντομον (entomon) 'insect' and -λογία (-logia) 'study') is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term insect was less specific...

Bookworm is a general name for any insect that is said to bore through books. The damage to books that is commonly attributed to "bookworms" is often caused...

evolution of insects is based on studies of the following branches of science: molecular biology, insect morphology, paleontology, insect taxonomy, evolution...

colonies can be viewed as superorganisms. Eusociality has evolved among the insects, crustaceans, trematoda and mammals. It is most widespread in the Hymenoptera...

Angels and Insects (sometimes styled as Angels & Insects) is a 1995 romantic drama film directed by Philip Haas and starring Mark Rylance, Patsy Kensit...

also /ˌkoʊtʃɪˈniːl, ˈkoʊtʃɪniːl/ KOH-chih-; Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived...

parasites. In homes and urban environments, the pests are the rodents, birds, insects and other organisms that share the habitat with humans, and that feed on...

doi:10.1093/jee/4.5.451. Beutenmüller, William (1904). "The Insect-Galls of the Vicinity of New York City". The American Museum Journal. 4: 118. hdl:10088/26139...

moths and sawflies. Prolegs do not have the same structure as modern adult insect legs, and there has been a great deal of debate as to whether they are homologous...

- to New York State Assemblyman Robert C. Wertz, urging him to introduce legislation designating the lady beetle as the official state insect. The proposal...

Insect migration is the seasonal movement of insects, particularly those by species of dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths. The distance can vary...

Phylliidae (often misspelled Phyllidae) contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged...

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a method of biological insect control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released into the wild...

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States. One of the Mid-Atlantic states, it borders the Atlantic Ocean, New...

contamination from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, "foreign matter", mold, rodent hairs, and insect and mammalian feces. The publication details...

There are no less than six fables concerning an impertinent insect, which is taken in general to refer to the kind of interfering person who makes himself...

Insects have found uses in art, as in other aspects of culture, both symbolically and physically, from ancient times. Artforms include the direct usage...