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The research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world.
New research uses firefly flashing patterns to identify species and what they’re communicating.
The number of insect species is mind-boggling – and they are a critical part of the environment.
Next time you’re outside, say a silent thanks for the many unsung insect pollinators helping to keep our ecosystems healthy.
Artificial lights at night are causing serious disruption to these insect night shift workers. That’s a problem for everyone.
Bugs that buzz and flutter at other times of year are conspicuously absent during winter months.
Microplastic pollution is a growing problem − one lab is looking at tiny insects as inspiration for how these pollutants might move through water.
Each year insect scientists like us field questions from the press and public about Christmas beetle populations: where have they gone?
West Nile virus arrived in North America in 1999 and spread across the continent by 2005. Here’s what you need to know about this mosquito-borne pathogen.
Flies often beat out competitors for food because of their specialized sensing organs called antennae.
If the spring fire season in Canada is any indication, fire-loving pyrophilic insects will continue to thrive well into summer.
Spiders liquefy their prey in order to consume it, and this makes it challenging to determine what spiders eat. A new approach that uses DNA barcoding is helping researchers figure out spider diets.
Nigerians are fond of beans but they need to preserve them without using toxic chemicals.
New research from China shows how the loss of insects is destabilising food webs.
Wet weather is great for some species of bugs. But Christmas beetle swarms look to be a thing of the past
A small congregation of the cockroaches was under the first rock scientists looked under, by sheer accident.
Mosquitoes can track down potential hosts using the CO2 released by humans’ metabolic processes, a medical entomologist explains.
A fly does some of its digesting outside its body before it even eats any food.
Parasitic wasps are body-snatchers — if you’re an insect. But these much-maligned creatures have saved millions of human lives by controlling the spread of the cassava mealybug.
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