Bumble bees are struggling. Fireflies are no longer lighting up the night, and fewer butterflies are fluttering over fields. Several recent reports have warned of a crushing decline in insect ...

The wings of cicadas and dragonflies are natural bacteria killers, inspiring scientists who are searching for new ways to defeat drug-resistant superbugs. They've now revealed how bioinspired ...

We have published an article describing a new calamitalean species named Annularia paisii with an insect gall about 303 million years old. This new fossil species was discovered in the region of São ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on May 21, 2020 at ...

Princeton attracts the world’s brightest minds like moths to a flame. Fortunately for us, the comparison ends there. While students lucky enough to attend the University can expect a phenomenal ...

Meet the Mother Monster of the insect world. Her name is Kaikaia gaga (named for Lady Gaga, natch) and she’s every bit as otherworldly as the pop diva. She wears a pair of devilish horns on her head, ...

As native insects decline and introduced insect pests surge, Penn State has launched an Insect Biodiversity Center for the study and conservation of insects and their ecosystems. The new center brings ...

Students from Matthew Moran’s laboratory at Hendrix College sample insects in an Arkansas prairie by using a suction machine. (Matthew Moran/CC BY-ND) In recent years, the notion of an insect ...

Now a new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution offers some happier news: In the United States at least, the abundance and insect biodiversity trends are "generally indistinguishable from zero." In ...

Bamboo worm powder. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are working on creating insect flours with properties that are conducive to baking. Insects could be a key contributor to ...

What has been around for 355 million years but disappears within days of maturity? A group of European entomologists wants the answer to become a household name. They’ve named the Danish mayfly, a ...