From pesky mosquitoes to majestic butterflies, insects come in a variety of forms and sizes. The tiny fairyfly is less than 0.25 inches long, while the giant walking stick can grow up to 7 inches long ...

Hear the rattle, give it space. A coniferous forest is a tree-dominated habitat in which needle- or scale-leaved, cone-bearing gymnosperms (e.g., pines, spruces, firs, hemlocks, larches, cedars) form ...

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This week's critter is the New Zealand Dobsonfly (Archichauliodes diversus). They are the only representing species of this group in New Zealand. These insects are unusual, spending most of their life ...

Megaloptera, a small order of holometabolous insects, encompasses 428 species sorted into 48 genera within two families, Corydalidae and Sialidae (Martins et al. 2022). The origin of the order has ...