A pesticide industry leader, Hutchins was formerly president of the Entomological Society of America.

Some beetle species may have evolved to tunnel into the ground to escape the pathogens that abound on dead and rotting animals.

A new species of ant discovered in Borneo fends off invaders with a uniquely suicidal strategy.

Quentin Wheeler’s firing of department chairs earlier this year didn’t sit well with university faculty members.  

There are countless ways for scientists to say, “I love you.” Naming a slime-mold beetle after your wife (and another after your ex-wife) is, apparently, one of them.  

One species has developed a novel waggle to warn about invading wasps.

Over the past seven years, Xiao-Long Lin has characterized nearly 70 new species of nonbiting midges and developed DNA barcodes to aid in future ecological surveys.

The 200-million-year-old fossils, the earliest found of lepidopterans, show characteristics of extant moths.

Entomologists have rediscovered a species of moth that was considered lost for 130 years.