Insects
Beautiful Butterflies
Butterflies are found worldwide. They live on every continent, except Antarctica, and in many diverse environments. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and their colors span the rainbow. Like flowers in flight, butterflies manifest the artwork of God across the globe.
Fire-loving Beetle
The Melanophila beetle is one of many creatures that actually hunt for fires. Its name means “black-loving” because the beetle likes freshly burned, blackened wood, where the female lays her eggs. Often the charred wood is still hot and smoldering when the beetles arrive.
Amazing Ants
Ants have taken over the world, it seems, but they didn’t do it alone! One reason they’re so successful is their ability to communicate with each other—where to go, what to watch out for, how to help.
Bee Scouts
Bee scouts seek out new flowers and new sources of food. But what motivates a bee scout? What makes her take risks, explore the unfamiliar, unselfishly bring back news of her discoveries and set out again to spend herself for the sake of the hive?
Articles About Insects
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Aug. 15, 2017 from 10 Cursed Creatures with Undeniable Design
The bombardier beetle’s tail end is equipped with twin “spray nozzles” (or gland openings) to shoot its gaseous ammunition.
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June 20, 2017 from 10 Cursed Creatures with Undeniable Design
A single worker bee may add merely one-twelfth of a teaspoon of prized honey to its colony. Yet the power of the bee is in the cooperation of the colony.
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Oct. 16, 2016 from Answers Magazine
Gifted ant architects have built thriving cities on every continent—using every imaginable kind of material.
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Aug. 7, 2016 from Answers Magazine
The family of giant silk moths, or Saturniidae, includes the largest—and arguably most beautiful—moths in the world.
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Magazine Department ArticleBee BeaconsJan. 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
Flowers guide bees in ways invisible to human eyes. And the bees have some pretty sophisticated onboard equipment to detect those floral beacons.
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Nov. 8, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Ant behavior may help us save lives. Creation is overflowing with such practical ideas and possible solutions to our most vexing problems.
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July 14, 2015 from Answers Magazine
What if badges could change color in an explosion, giving doctors vital information about the severity of the shock?
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Magazine Department ArticleDinosaur MothJuly 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Researchers on Australia’s Kangaroo Island have discovered a tiny moth they claim has remained essentially unchanged for 40 million years.
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May 14, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Fleas are considered a nuisance. How can they be explained as a part of God’s very good creation?
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March 22, 2015 from Answers Magazine
What’s fascinating about periodical cicadas is their sheer numbers and the mysterious timing of their emergence from hiding.
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Feb. 13, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Research shows that bedbugs are still bedbugs. They don't demonstrate Darwinian evolution—they vary within their created kind to survive in a sin-cursed world.
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Feb. 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Since the dawn of time, people have marveled at the caterpillar’s visible transformation into a butterfly.
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Jan. 24, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Is the war on malaria plagued by “rapid evolution of insecticide resistance” in mosquitoes?
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Jan. 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine
Most people would be happy to live in a world without cockroaches. But even creatures we see as pests show God’s amazing designs.
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Nov. 9, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Recently the abdomen of a certain hornet was discovered to have intricate structures that look like space-age solar panels.
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Sept. 2, 2014 from Answers Magazine
One reason ants are so successful is because of their ability to communicate with each other.
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July 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Honeypot ants gorge until they can’t leave the nest.
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June 7, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Hawaiian cricket “evolution” into stealth mode saves them from extinction.
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May 26, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Evolution: Not just for survival anymore!
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In-Depth ArticleMolecular Basis of Aphid-Bacteria Nutritional Symbiosis RevealedMay 22, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Sap-sucking insects get a nutritional leg up from bacterial symbionts.
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March 2, 2014 from Answers Magazine
The Melanophila beetle is one of many creatures that actually hunt for fires.
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