Dara Ojo is a master of wildlife macrophotography — extreme close-up shots showing little critters in all their odd, beautiful glory.

When portrait photographer Levon Biss decided to try his hand at macro photography in his free time, he didn’t do it by halves. He created a brilliant series of ginormous photos of insects as ...

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art explores the work of 16th- and 17th-century artists who captured nature’s ...

Would you like to decorate your home with insects? A weird thought maybe... but once you see these beautiful pieces of art... you won't think twice!

His photographs are now collected in the book, Art and Architecture of Insects. Electron microscopes aren’t available to many hobby photographers.

“Extinct & Endangered,” a new book by photographer Levon Biss and the American Museum of Natural History, documents the crisis of insect decline.

“These images are made through a process called focus-stacking,” says Sober. “When you are working on this scale, it’s impossible to get an entire insect completely in focus.

“Beauty and the Beetle: Coleoptera in Art and Science,” an exhibit that aims to inspire an appreciation of the Earth’s most diverse denizens, opens Saturday, May 27 at the Yale Peabody Museum of ...

Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural world.

Taking eye-catching pictures of insects requires lots of patience, luck and muscle memory, says Salb. He aims to photograph them during warmer months in the pre-dawn hours, when they are less ...

In addition to the photos and art on display, guests can enjoy a variety of interactive activities to learn about this symbiotic relationship between humans and insects.