In response to the global increase in demand for food caused by demographic growth and population aging, a team of researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has made progress in ...

There are over 3,000 stick insect species, including a recently discovered species in Australia’s Wet Tropics. Learn more ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

During restaurant inspections in Escambia and Santa Rosa County from Oct. 20-26, one restaurant was temporarily closed and 8 others received high violations.

Humans can have extreme reactions when they come across insects – from delight at the sight of a Monarch butterfly to disgust at a scurrying cockroach. But did you know that many insects are too small ...

This beetle likely fed on fungi that grew in the Cretaceous forest. Credit: Enrique Peñalver Amber from Ecuador has revealed 112-million-year-old insects and plants, offering a rare glimpse into ...

They began blooming about mid-July. Since then, various species spread and filled the roadsides and fields with continuous flowers. Except for a white one that grows along the shores of Lake Superior, ...

The discovery in Ecuador of multiple pieces of insect-bearing amber—112 millions of years old—has opened a window to the secrets of a prehistoric forest. At this time, during the Cretaceous era, South ...

Over the course of millennia, insects, spiders, and other arthropods in tropical forests have evolved in response to natural weather cycles like the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). With climate ...

Flying insect populations are plummeting even in remote, undisturbed ecosystems, raising fears that climate change may be playing a greater role than previously understood. The study, conducted by ...