Insects

What can we learn from these blood suckers?

An award-winning photographer shares what these bioluminescent insects have taught him—and how you can capture their beauty.

Remembering one passionate entomologist who poetically described and classified more than 70 species' painful stings.

Wait'll you hear these wonders of audio storytelling.

An enchanting natural phenomenon in a daunting place.

At the Joya Redonda Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, hibernating monarch numbers have multiplied tenfold. But is that enough to save the insect?

Renowned entomologist Frank Nischk remembers when the determined insects tried to invade a field station.

A moth once saved Australia from a cactus crisis.

Across the archipelago, scientists and citizens are uniting against the tiny terrors, deploying an arsenal of creative weapons.

A gift guide from the Atlas Obscura team.

Fancy a spit-roasted roasted alien? Urine whiskey? A deep-fried Game Boy?

A creepy form of parasitism is one of evolution's favorite strategies, and scientists are starting to figure out how it works.