The insect was last seen in the New Forest in the 1990s and specialist listening equipment was used to locate the insect in ...

U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners published new findings on how leaf-eating insects affect forest ecosystems worldwide. "The findings of this study provide an improved understanding of the ...

Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80% decline in pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What’s going on with numbers of Alaska ...

Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new ...

Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...

For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

While about half of the trees studied between 2018 and 2024 died for unknown reasons, 22% were killed by insects, the study shows. Weather caused 13% of tree deaths, disease 9%, and the remainder were ...

A 112-million-year-old chironomid fly (Diptera: Nematocera) is preserved in amber from Ecuador's Genoveva quarry, representing South America's first discovery of ancient insects trapped in fossilized ...

Opening forest canopies to boost biodiversity may reduce spider diversity, as closed forests support significantly more ...

By the 1980s, this unique acoustic experience was rapidly fading from our local soundscape.

A groundbreaking study suggests Earth may host up to 20.3 million insect species, significantly more than the previously ...

Researchers have published new findings on how leaf-eating insects affect forest ecosystems worldwide. Researchers are aware of how large herbivores cycle nutrients in forests. They know much less, ...