URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Foellinger Auditorium will be home to the 42nd Annual Insect Fear Film Festival (IFFF) this Saturday. This event is being hosted by the Entomology Graduate Students Association ...

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). ...

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 ...

Insects make up most of the species on earth and are so crucial to life in general, and yet numbers are dwindling like never before. A documentary highlights the switch ...

CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Hairy, scary spiders will be the focus of an annual film festival at the University of Illinois over the weekend. Feb. 22 marks the 42nd Annual Insect Fear Film ...

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 ...