The monster movie Guillermo del Toro calls “a great sci-fi thriller” and “the ‘Citizen Kane’ of giant insect films" is now ...

After 36 years of showcasing towering mutant insects on the big screen, the Insect Fear Film Festival made a radical departure in its 37th year by highlighting monstrous crabs and lobsters rather than ...

Against its will, it crawled up the stalk, marching toward its final destination. And then, from its skull burst forth the invader from within, releasing a bevy of its alien brood. This horror may ...

Jon Tetlie, a doctoral candidate in the University of Illinois Department of Entomology, holds the body of a brown-belted bumblebee, whose stinger contains venom that can cause allergic reactions in ...

Lizzie Bello loves insects — and she wants you to love them too. “They’re really wonderful creatures,” said Bello, a Ph.D. student in entomology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). ...

Zipping from one hand to the other, six legs less than an inch long poke at the skin. As the cockroach explores, the movement continues. The 40th annual Insect Fear Film Festival happened on Saturday ...

Are all computer bugs bad? This year’s Insect Fear Film Festival proves that’s not the case when it goes online, like so many other film festivals, in response to safety ...

film profile], which is also due to be his last. An amateur theatre company attempts to put on a performance of From the Life of Insects, serving as a pretext for “a witty, fantastical satire on ...

We have survived the total solar eclipse. No one was vaporized to dust or raptured. At least no one I know. But just around the corner is our next near-apocalyptic global event. Giant, man-eating ...