Like it or not, insects are everywhere, including places where you may not want them to be. Yet there is one environment that ...

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More than 60% of Australia's known insects are unnamed and a mystery to science. Of an estimated 500,000 Australian species, roughly half are insects, but many aren't categorized. A group of ...

Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are no insects in the ocean, thanks to adaptable air sacs.

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research. Pro-environmental behaviour increases among school ...

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

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The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Researchers are investigating the causes and consequences of the worldwide insect decline as well as considering potential countermeasures. A researcher from Mainz University has published work in a ...

It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music, and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor ...

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