When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

(0802290022/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Forty percent of the world's insect species are at risk of extinction in the coming ...

Insects are in decline, and that’s a big problem for all of us, given all of the unseen work they do to keep the planet running, whether it be through soil irrigation, pollination, providing pest ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of ...

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI ...