More than 75 percent of the world’s insect species are insufficiently protected when it comes to conservation areas around the globe, according to a recent new study.

Insect decline is being driven by losses among the locally more common species, according to a new study. The meta-analysis of 923 locations around the world notes two significant trends: 1) the ...

Leipzig. Insect decline is being driven by losses among the locally more common species, according to a new study published in Nature. Led by researchers at the German Centre for Integrative ...

InsectNet -- which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists -- provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species ...

The insect formerly known as the “murder hornet” and the “Asian giant hornet” has a new name ... like all of the 1.5 million insect species out there, ...

Only 20% of the estimated 5 million species of insects on Earth are named and yet insects are poorly represented in protected area assessments, and insect declines are of concern globally.

If insects vanish, the consequences for food production will be catastrophic, said Herschcovich, the manager of Butterfly Pavilion lepidopterists. “Invertebrate species are disappearing faster ...

Eerie, wriggly, and entirely fascinating — these are just a few of the descriptors that have been applied to the numerous ...

Spring brings showers, flowers and a ton of insects. This includes ladybugs – one of the rare insect species people aren’t rushing to crush – which is likely due to the belief that they’re ...

“Probably 99.999, or something like this, percent of the DNA we extract is plant DNA, and only a tiny fraction, which is left, is the insect DNA,” Krehenwinkel explains, “which, of course ...

An invasive insect species that targets fruit trees and other plants is slowly making its way toward Illinois, and if you were to see one, experts have one piece of advice. Destroy it, and report ...

The insect formerly known as the “murder hornet” and the “Asian giant hornet” has a new name – “northern giant hornet” –after two insect associations said “the usage of ‘Asian ...