Insects are all around us—an ant on the sidewalk, a bee buzzing by, a butterfly floating on the breeze—and they shape the ...

As it has done every 17 years since, Brood XIV died off just six or so weeks after it emerged, but not before laying billions ...

That means they will not be seen again until 2038. What's the deal with cicadas, anyway? Periodical cicadas begin their life cycles as nymphs on trees, where they feed on sap before dropping to the ...

Jim had long considered such a project, but it was the late author and naturalist George Ellison who spurred Smokies Life to undertake adding an insect natural history field guide to the park's ...

Jim had long considered such a project, but it was the late author and naturalist George Ellison who spurred Smokies Life to undertake adding an insect natural history field guide to the park's ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life — including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 called ...