Bumblebee experts in England are celebrating a rise in the population of one of the country's rarest bumblebees. The ...

Over the summer, scientists in the New Forest found the Little Arboreal Ladybird — a yellow-bodied species with white spots — ...

Two new frog species have recently been discovered on the small, boulder-studded Dauan Island off Queensland. The frogs have ...

Scientists have managed to find a rare insect after it supposedly went extinct more than two decades ago. The Behningia baei, a species of mayfly that hasn't been seen since 2002, were rediscovered in ...

Nibley • Under the glow of Tuesday’s Strawberry Moon, Hannah Wilkinson stood on a boardwalk winding through wetland plants, camera in hand, searching for glowing insects. She wasn’t alone. Dozens of ...

In 1980, a single male grasshopper was collected on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde. No one knew then that this moment would mark the only sighting of a species that would soon be considered ...

MISSOURI, USA — A Missouri Department of Conservation official recently spotted a ghostly variation of a Monarch butterfly in the state. Natural History Biologist Amanda Gehin saw an extremely rare ...

With just 1.2% of the world’s one million described insect species assessed for extinction risk, biodiversity assessment and conservation measures remain severely constrained. Sufficiently extensive ...

Around a quarter of people are scared of insects and/or spiders. This phobia is quite strange, really, as deep down, we know that most of these tiny creatures can’t hurt us, and yet we still can’t ...