Here are some of the world’s most colourful insects and spiders. Soap Opera icon, Leslie Charleson, known as Monica Quartermaine on "General Hospital," died Sunday morning after a long illness.

Nor are the planet’s most diverse animals, insects. Even so, Montreal-based artist and photographer Raku Inoue finds a way to showcase both with his colorful portraits of insects and other ...

From a distance, you might mistake Picasso shield bugs for little Easter eggs. But why are the insects so colorful, and what do they have to do with Picasso? PETBOOK author and biologist Saskia ...

Yes, there are in fact strawberries in there, but they're there for flavor and texture, not color. That bright red comes from something else called carmine. Oh, and it's made from squashed bugs.

The study of insect pigmentation and color patterns is a fascinating area of research that explores how genetic factors influence the coloration of insects. This field is particularly important ...