New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

Imagine a world without insects. You might breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of mosquito-free summers, or you might worry about how agriculture will function without pollinators. What you ...

It looks like a twig. But this insect can fly, clone itself and defend against predators. Meet world’s biggest Stick insect. It can grow nearly 9 inches.

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In the FInAL project, researchers from the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) are testing measures for insect protection. Since 2018, they have been investigating possibilities ...

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Insect populations are plummeting worldwide, with major consequences for our ecosystems and without us quite knowing why. A new AI method is set to help monitor and catalog insect biodiversity, which ...

IRD researchers and their partners have published a special issue in the Current Opinion in Insect Science journal. Using an interdisciplinary approach and based on examples from international ...

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It’s not everyday that you find a new organ in the body of not one, but three different groups of insects. That is, unless you’re the team of scientists who very recently discovered a sensory organ ...