The petrol-blue wings of a swallowtail butterfly, soft fur of a giant Patagonian bumblebee, and oil-painted smudges of a ladybug are some of the details captured by British photographer Levon Biss in ...

This project was created in order to take pictures of insects in flight using an additional optical lens system to peek for insects in focus. This project was created in order to take pictures of ...

In the early 1900s, photographer David Fairchild trained his camera on a part of the world most of us ignore: The insects under our feet. His resulting body of work, published in 1913 in National ...

When taking high-resolution 3D scans of insects, scientists typically have to kill their test subjects, which isn’t always ideal. By taking advantage of an insect’s ability to survive oxygen-poor ...

Damselflies can’t smile – but their wide-open mandibles make them appear to be grinning broadly or even sticking out their tongue, says Benjamin Salb, who photographed one of the insects, pictured ...

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image: The environmental setting is semi-arid at the shores of a lagoon. A mayfly (Coxoplectoptera) rests on a shoot of a flowering plant. One of the flowers is being pollinated by a wasp Cretosphex ...

Living insects can now be scanned in unprecedented 3D detail without being harmed. The scanning method developed by scientists at Western University in Canada relies on an insect’s ability to survive ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...