Pinned and labeled eastern Hercules beetles are part of the Virginia Tech collection. Virginia Tech entomology professor Paul ...

To be a farmer, a forester or even a climate scientist, it can help to know a thing or two about insects, like what they eat, where they thrive, which ones pollinate and which ones spread disease. “I ...

Germany's Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union, or NABU, has organized its seventh annual "insect summer," during which it invites people to spend an hour counting the insects they see in a ...

Britain’s insect population seems to be falling, and so about 100,000 people will arm themselves with “splatometers” next year to count them. The device is effectively a square of flypaper on a car ...

The biodiversity of bugs serves as a planetary early warning system. But tracking their numbers takes big thinking. It’s dark. Vegetal decay hangs thick in the air, trapped beneath the rotting innards ...

3,938 moths are part of a major insect study based on artificial intelligence, and researchers from Aarhus University have just published their results in the scientific journal Sensors. They have ...