This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones that will go ...

Knee-deep in a river of northern Thailand, scientists scooped up some sand with a net and sifted through it. Hidden between ...

Most insects are unstudied, but scientists created a global framework to understand and protect them using all available knowledge.

The Prague Zoo has joined an international effort to ensure the survival of a rare insect that had been considered extinct ...

Ants can find very small cracks and crevices to get into a home. The best ways to prevent them deciding to move in is by ...

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite concerns about population declines, little is ...

Are insects really declining as badly as previous studies have forecasted? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of more than a dozen researchers ...

While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect the rest. Despite our outsized impact on the planet, humans are not ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

"With a million described species, it would take too long to figure out what works best for each species. Instead, we want to find large-scale actions that benefit the most insects.

Scientists scooped sand from a riverbed in Thailand and found two nymphs of rare mayfly species not seen in 22 years, a study said. Photo from Kwanboon and Boonsoong (2025) Knee-deep in a river of ...