On a hot summer day, strolling down a city street with concrete in every direction can feel like walking into an oven. It ...

In the search for gentler alternatives to address pests and diseases, chemical ecology has emerged as an innovative tool.

In a novel experiment at the University of Cincinnati, researchers recently isolated kissing bugs, fruit flies, mosquitoes ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around the equator. Yet we still know surprisingly little about how these species ...

Researchers have identified three new snake mantis species from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Their flat, leaf-hugging ...

Tough leaves were expected to stop hungry insects, but a new forest study finds silicon offers better protection than ...

Buglife says the project aims to restore more than 30 hectares of the vital ecosystem.

Scientists say we’re facing an “insect apocalypse” as a growing body of research shows drastic declines in their numbers around the world. One of the first warning signs came from a study published in ...

Sold around the world, their protein content is comparable to meat, according to the FAO. But the possibility of expanding ...

Carnivorous plants have nutritional needs that may not otherwise be met in their environments, one reader explains ...

There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...