The mountain pine beetle is one of the main causes of tree mortality in the pine forests of North America. For example, the insect has killed thousands of acres of pine forest in British Columbia and ...

Anyone who's seen Jurassic Park knows fossilized amber is lousy with trapped insects. While we can't extract their juices to make dinosaurs, many of these insects are preserved in pristine detail and ...

Ancient evidence reveals that humans have eaten insects for thousands of years, challenging Western attitudes about what ...

Researchers study the flight performance of the mountain pine beetle from a fluid mechanics and an entomological perspective. Understanding these aspects of the insect's flight could improve estimates ...