Many tropical insects are already close to their heat tolerance limits, raising concerns that rising temperatures could ...

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

A sweeping new study of more than 2,000 insect species reveals a troubling reality: many insects may be far less capable of ...

Tom Wassmer points at a malaise trap, which is used to collect samples of flying insects for research. A biology professor at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan, Wassmer is among many ...

Source: Steve Nicholls/with permission. Insects are amazing animals. They're all over the place and simply put, their well-being is crucial for the fate of our planet and all other animals, including ...

Nearly 90 percent of insect and arachnid species in North America lack conservation status, leaving major gaps in ...

Are insects really declining as badly as previous studies have forecasted? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of more than a dozen researchers ...

Insects are fascinating and highly diverse animals who far too often are written off as pests and nuisances whose lives are totally disposable. However, their global presence and ubiquity are ...

Daisy is a journalist and writer with 20 years of experience working on titles including the Telegraph, Time Out London, ...

Matilda Gibbons receives funding from Queen Mary University of London. Andrew Crump receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and ...

Mosquitoes are swarming back into Central Texas after recent storms soaked the region, leaving behind sticky humidity and pockets of standing water — perfect breeding grounds for the pesky insects.