After 36 years of showcasing towering mutant insects on the big screen, the Insect Fear Film Festival made a radical departure in its 37th year by highlighting monstrous crabs and lobsters rather than ...

Insect-human hybrids provide the scares at the 2026 Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The festival, which is ...

CHAMPAIGN — Lobsters, shrimp and crayfish look like marine versions of insects, with their antennae and segmented bodies. The resemblance is not by chance. Crustaceans and insects are related – more ...

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 ...

Zipping from one hand to the other, six legs less than an inch long poke at the skin. As the cockroach explores, the movement continues. The 40th annual Insect Fear Film Festival happened on Saturday ...

Are all computer bugs bad? This year’s Insect Fear Film Festival proves that’s not the case when it goes online, like so many other film festivals, in response to safety ...

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 ...

Against its will, it crawled up the stalk, marching toward its final destination. And then, from its skull burst forth the invader from within, releasing a bevy of its alien brood. This horror may ...