Insect specimens that have puzzled museum curators for decades turn out to represent a lineage so odd that scientists have named a new order just for them, the first one created in 87 years. The order ...

Provides dichotomous key and illustrations that provide identification of common arthropods to the order/class level. by Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Details insect ...

Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and 'E.T.-like' appearance and features so unusual that it has been placed in its own ...

The insect order Hymenoptera -- wasps, bees, ants and relatives -- is the third most diverse animal group, but its origin remains controversial. Fossils from Permian beds of Russia demonstrate that ...

Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, sawflies) is one of four insect orders with more than 100,000 described species. Above are three hymenopteran fossils. (Photos University of California Museum of ...

Washington D.C., April 17, 2002 – An international team of scientists announced today the first discovery of a new insect order since 1915. The discovery will be posted on tomorrow’s Science Express ...