For human societies, insects are part of a shared ecology involving the gamut of symbiotic relations. Insects (and arthropods ...

New studies, featured in a recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, assess insect declines around the planet. On average, the decline in insect abundance is thought to be ...

Ecosystems can’t function without the millions of insects that make up the base of the food chain, and a new review in the journal Biological Conservation suggests human activity and climate change ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi is a senior Food Security Fellow with the Aspen Institute New Voices. A new report has been released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN’s authority on ...

The more we study sentience among nonhuman animals (animals) the more species are added to the sentience arena—the biodiversity of sentience is forever growing—and ethical questions about pain and ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, preserved in amber, shows unique features not seen in modern species. Its ...

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