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

Beetles alone account for almost one-third of the number, about 1.5 million species. By comparison, there are “only” an ...

Many insect species are going extinct All of this has potentially huge implications for our own human species. Insects affect us in countless ways. People depend on them for crop pollination ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...

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Many butterflies, bees and moths are fluttering into oblivion. A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that ...

Since starting the collection in 1998, Richard has collected about 80,000 insect specimens, many of which are unique to ...

Mounting scientific evidence indicates that native plants provide a far more complete set of vital services to our ecosystems ...

Oh, the beauty of blooming! I actually worked on a commercial organic flower farm for two years, so I’ve known many kinds of ...

Once down to just 200 individuals in the wild, it is now thriving. Conservationists celebrate remarkable comeback of adorable ...