When researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute collected an adult female katydid from Barro Colorado Island ...

A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) estimates 10% of insect species on Barro Colorado Island may be cryptic, or visually indistinguishable from related species, ...

Used for food, feed and research, the critters are among the most widely farmed bugs. The study authors say humans should ...

Meet Dr. Torsten Dikow, an entomologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. In this episode of Smithsonian Science How, learn how predatory assassin flies are able to catch other ...

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If you happen to be walking in the forests of Panama, you might just come across a bug that will wave at you, which scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) have been studying ...

In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, several cleaner ants tend to a harvester ant by licking tiny particles off the larger ant's body. In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants ...

Many insects feel right at home in the hot, humid environments of the tropics; more than 70 percent of the world’s insect species live in such regions. Climate change, however, is pushing their heat ...