Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the earth’s ecosystems. In fact, there are more than 900,000 different species of ...

SATURDAY, April 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — From beetles to moths, leafhoppers and butterflies, the world's insects are vanishing at a breakneck pace. Since 2017, when European researchers reported ...

Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both the combined weight (what scientists call biomass) and diversity of ...

Many people believe that all insects are harmful pests, but the fact is that most insects areharmless and some are actually beneficial. There are nearly one million known species of insects on the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Most would prefer not to turn their home into an all-exclusive insect hotel. Similarly, seeing bugs crawling around your garden can be ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, egos. But its insects? They take excess ...

The weather is changing and many of us are noticing an uptick in the nuisance bites caused by several insects. During most of the season, these insects would be considered beneficial as they are ...

Parasitoid insects, unlike parasites, kill their hosts by consuming them during their larval stage. Most parasitoids are small wasps and flies, and they infect a wide range of insects and arachnids.

New research reveals how the increasingly intensive use of grasslands affects insects and other arthropods. Surprisingly, ...

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In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments. I ...