Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Due to increased climate change, the population of insects is declining. The International Union for the Conservation of ...

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects ...

Across the region, insect conservation is under-represented in research, funding and public discourse. Read more at ...

Most insects are unstudied, but scientists created a global framework to understand and protect them using all available knowledge.

New research uncovers the surprising role of plant scents in insect diets and evolution especially butterflies and moths.

During the survey, the team documented around 60 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera); 30 species of dragonflies ...

Knee-deep in a river of northern Thailand, scientists scooped up some sand with a net and sifted through it. Hidden between ...

While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect ...

All insects descend from a common ancestor that lived about about 480 million years ago. For context, that's about 100 million years before any of our vertebrate ancestors - animals with a backbone - ...