As night falls over Australia's forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life. In ...

It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor ...

At night in the Costa Rican cloud forest, a small team of international scientists switched on a light and waited. Soon, insects big and small descended out of the darkness. Moths with spots like ...

High up in the mountains of Monteverde, Costa Rica, a team of researchers lug heavy equipment including two high-speed cameras deep into a dream-like cloud forest. As the cool mist rolls in along with ...

Warner Park Nature Center's "Insects of the Night" is an annual family festival with insect night hikes, pond explorations, puppet shows and other creepy-crawly fun. There will be "Insect Olympics," ...

The first humans to sit around campfires probably observed a strange example of animal behavior that continues to perplex people today. They would have seen insects that emerge from the night and ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the Education ...

Samuel Fabian receives funding from the European Research Council and a National Geographic Explorer Grant. Jamie Theobald receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Air Force ...