Or, as many of us call it, sex. Hey, did you know that eighty-five percent of male insects engage in homosexual acts? About the same rate as my high school exes. Don't remind me. Ugh. Read… 10/24/13 10:00am 10/24/13 10:00am

If you've always wondered exactly what it looks like, inside of your flesh, when a mosquito sticks its stabby, contaminated tube-mouth in there and sucks your blood, YOU'RE WELCOME. Here's a video of it. Video of the mosquito probing around for a blood vessel (inside "a flap of mouse skin") is above, and video of the… Read… 8/06/13 10:30pm 8/06/13 10:30pm

If you're a resident of the American Southeast and have been noticing an unsettling and sinister smell in the out of doors lately, do not panic — it's merely the stink of millions of decaying cicada bodies, tiny corpses that mere days ago were full of vim and vigor. Read… 6/11/13 4:20pm 6/11/13 4:20pm

I live in the Pacific Northwest, which means that the most interesting bug-themed event of my lifetime was side-eyeing a silverfish in my laundry room last week (slimer needed to cut the attitude tho srsly). We don't have anything big or venomous or swarmy at all ever, which makes the east coast's 17-summer cicada… Read… 5/28/13 3:00pm 5/28/13 3:00pm

Remember the horrible bed bug invasion that was going to plunge New York into the Age of the Insect, when all Gothamites would have to feed their mattresses to the insatiable Bed Bug Queen living in the subway tunnels? It was going to be terrible, and then, magically, bed bugs vanished from the news...until now. Read… 5/24/13 11:15am 5/24/13 11:15am

People who fear bugs will be especially put upon during “Swarmageddon,” and you might never have figured this out if the cicada scribes at the Washington Post, a periodical chronicling the latest developments in entomology, hadn’t taken the time to explain that people who already hate bugs hate the idea of a lot of… Read… 5/19/13 2:00pm 5/19/13 2:00pm

On the eve of "Swarmageddon," the name given to a cicada awakening 17 years in the making, the United Nations has released a report that highly recommends eating insects as a part of a healthy and balanced diet. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that many of the 1,900 species of insects that humans … Read… 5/13/13 5:00pm 5/13/13 5:00pm

Heads up, Tim Burton! Here's Shiyoko Nakagawa, a Japanese idol known for taking style to its limit, modeling a head full of the shed shells of cicada juveniles. All I have to say is: Good thing they're not live cicadas, because if those fools stay on a human too long they sometimes stick their (painful) proboscis into … Discuss… 1/14/13 11:00pm 1/14/13 11:00pm

Researchers working on "the next big thing in disaster response" have figured out how to put a tiny backpack on a cockroach and then remote-control it through collapsed buildings to locate survivors. The roach can be equipped with a small video camera or a microphone, which can then transmit information to human… Read… 9/14/12 6:30pm 9/14/12 6:30pm

Bugs are literally everywhere. They're on your sheets (probably), they're waiting in the dark corners of your shoes, they're hiding in pantry doors ready to jump out at you as if they've been spring-loaded and now, if you have rosacea, they might even be crawling in your pores, dying and leaving their bacteria-bloated… Read… 8/30/12 11:10am 8/30/12 11:10am

We've long known that the human body is home to all kinds of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes, and now scientists have completed the first ever map of all of these semi-disgusting critters. It was not an easy job, but now the census of the human microbiome is complete and the verdict is that we're disgusting—but… Read… 6/14/12 9:30am 6/14/12 9:30am

Oh, hey there. Had you managed to forget about the constant threat of bed bugs for even one second? Hahaha, of course not. You are always aware that your home could be invaded at any time, turning what was once your comfort zone into your own personal nightmare mansion. Well, you should continue to be paranoid about… Read… 6/04/12 11:55pm 6/04/12 11:55pm

Spiders are creepy! I mean, they are kind of neat, but mostly they cause people to scurry away in fear and sometimes even emit high-pitched shrieks. Well, if you are one of the people who can't stand those little multi-legged crawlers, you might be in luck. A new study has found that it is possible to turn people from… Read… 5/21/12 9:15pm 5/21/12 9:15pm

You know bees? Yeah, those guys. You know how they sometimes land on you and walk around? Well, turns out, it's not because they mistook you for a giant beautiful flower (though you are one, special tulip!), or because they're all tuckered out after a long day at the honey factory. It's because they're hungry. And your … Read… 5/04/12 10:00am 5/04/12 10:00am

I know what you're thinking. "I totally don't have any bug diseases because bugs respect my personal space!" And that might be true...for now. But according to Scientific American, the tropical Chagas disease—a "silent killer" common in Central and South America—might be more common in North America than anyone thought.… Read… 4/10/12 10:00am 4/10/12 10:00am

It's seventy degrees in New York right now, and recently much of the east coast has been bathed in balmy warmth. Which seems all fine and dandy until the high temperatures cause an insect explosion! One guy in Greenville County, South Carolina has fire ants all over his yard and kudzu bugs all over his house. And a guy … Read… 3/14/12 5:30pm 3/14/12 5:30pm

Are you tired of the cuteness of Valentine's Day? Do you want to get your special someone something totally disgusting? The Bronx Zoo has the perfect gift for you — for $10, you can name one of their Madagascar hissing cockroaches after your SO (or friend, or mom, or whatever). No, you do not also get to take the roach … Read… 2/06/12 5:20pm 2/06/12 5:20pm

You have to hand it to spiders, they're so crafty, building their fancy webs and always managing to crawl out of your shoe and spook you just when you're least expecting it. But there is one kind of spider that has really gone above and beyond the call of duty: The orb-web spider, ephilengys malabarensis, has a … Read… 1/31/12 11:55pm 1/31/12 11:55pm

A ball girl was forced by an unchivalrous tennis player — who evidently doesn't know that bugs and children are sworn natural enemies — to remove a large cricket from the court yesterday at the Australian Open. The cameraman spares us a close-up of the surely disgusting creature, but he doesn't spare the girl any… Read… 1/22/12 2:00pm 1/22/12 2:00pm

Kind of. Scientists have discovered that the shiny wings of the diamond weevil are full of crystals made of chitin in a structure much like actual diamonds. Unfortunately, bug engagement rings may be a ways off — says biophysicist Bodo Wilts, "Materials scientists could look to these scales to inspire new materials, but … Read… 12/21/11 2:45pm 12/21/11 2:45pm

This year's Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded "for achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK," were announced last night. The chemistry prize went to a Japanese team that developed the world's first "wasabi alarm," while the peace prize went to the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania "for demonstrating that the problem… Read… 9/30/11 3:20pm 9/30/11 3:20pm

Another blow to the idea that homosexuality is unnatural- researchers have found a surprising frequency of homosexual behavior among insects. Read… 8/21/11 4:20pm 8/21/11 4:20pm

Meet the female insect who is able to use her own sperm to procreate — which is quickly causing a serious shortage of males: Read… 7/16/11 11:35am 7/16/11 11:35am

British writer Rowan Somerville has won the Literary Review's Bad Sex Writing prize for likening coitus to "a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect." Maybe the lady in question was wearing a sexy bug costume? Read… 11/29/10 5:05pm 11/29/10 5:05pm