Everyone seems to be talking about bugs, and the buzz isn’t nice. We’ve heard about the Wasatch Front’s skyrocketing mosquito population, the nuisance of elm seed and box elder bugs and even the ...

The fading of insects from the world is not immediate. It is a slow and painful unraveling. Starting subtly, we will notice a little less honey, fewer strawberries in season, and tomatoes that seem ...

Habitat loss, pesticides and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40% of all insects species are declining globally and that a ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive A veery gets ready to rise into ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Entomologist Mary Liz Jameson, right, shows Luz Horton which kinds of dung beetles likely live on the land where she and her husband, Jamin Horton, own a bison ranch. Burlingame — Without dung beetles ...

Volunteers tend to an insect trap in Los Angeles. Deniz Durmus, courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, CC BY-SA The project used data from the museum’s BioSCAN project, where ...

Pioneering researcher E.O. Wilson famously called insects “the little things that run the world.” According to our best estimates, the world is home to about 5.5 million species, making them the most ...