FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- An insect found on the side of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, big-box store has been identified as the species Polystoechotes punctata, which belongs to a family of insects that ...

The larvae then go through three stages of metamorphosis, which lasts up to two years. They go from tiny eggs to hand-sized grubs, living underground and getting bigger and bigger.

A giant lacewing found clinging to the exterior of a supermarket is the first time in 50 years the species been spotted in the eastern half of the US ...

An insect has been identified as the species Polystoechotes punctata, which belongs to a family of insects that predates the dinosaurs.

The “ supersized ”​​​​​​​ A. alta weighs around 1.6 ounces (44 grams), or slightly less than a golf ball. “From what we know to date, this is Australia’s heaviest insect,” study co-author Angus Emmott ...

Hundreds of pests, live insect larvae, found inside a package of fake flowers shipped from Kenya at a New York City airport, officials say.

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval ...