The industry that fights bed bugs is growing, but the only real winners are the pests themselves.

What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?

Put a few termites into a petri dish and they wander around aimlessly; put in forty and they start stampeding around the dish’s perimeter like a herd. But put enough termites together, in the right conditions, and they will build you a cathedral.

For insect detectives, the trickiest cases involve the bugs that aren’t really there.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

How we try - and usually fail - to fight the mosquito.