Insects, with all their intricacies ... Here are six of New Scientist's favourite winning photos. A wavy-lined emerald moth ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...

A new mossy stick insect was spotted flaunting its figure in the moist, mossy Chocó forests of northwestern Ecuador. The new ...

Polish photographer Miroslaw Swietek takes extremely close-up photos of insects, impossible until a few years ago. Using a macro lens - which has evolved to capture the smallest details at the ...

Insect Week runs from 19 to 25 June and you can find out more details or enter the new photographic competition on their website. This is a selection of the pictures that caught the judges' eye.

A self-taught photographer has been capturing the "alien world" of insects. Lee Frost, from Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, said he liked taking the macro images "of what's just around us".

The best time to take pictures there is early in the morning ... Nevertheless, he stages the insect beautifully by placing it in front of the colorful background, which complements the picture ...

About 80 percent of all animals on the planet are insects, and the Enns Entomology Museum at MU has one of the most important ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. If there were a competition for the world’s weirdest insect, treehoppers would have a clear shot at first place.