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Austin and his technician, Nathan Tang, searching the sand dunes for insects at Death Valley National Park

California’s grand insect census

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025

As Singapore heats up, pests are seeking refuge indoors

Robin Hicks 9 Oct 2025
Banner image: A boy holds locusts he caught in Nakuru county, Kenya Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Image courtesy of AP Photo/Brian Inganga.

Fears of major locust swarms wane in the Sahel but agencies step up monitoring

Stephanie Achieng’ 7 Oct 2025

Goliath versus Goliath (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 20 Aug 2025
Supertree grove is part of the Gardens by the Bay (GBTB) urban park in Singapore, covering 105 hectares (260 acres). Image by Tien Tran (tientran0019) via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

How urban greening is helping Singapore bounce back from widespread forest loss

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2025
Beekeepers monitoring hive boxes at Kazirhat, Shariatpur.

Honey bees in Bangladesh suffer from indiscriminate pesticide use

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2025
Dr. Sheila Colla receiving the 2023 Education Award from Nature Ontario. Courtesy of Nature Ontari

Sheila Colla, advocate for bees, died on July 6th, aged 43

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2025
Banner image of a honeybee farm by Nelynnnnn via Wikimedia Commons (CCO 1.0).

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study

Kristine Sabillo 11 Jul 2025
Riding through a locust swarm in Lekiji, Samburu County, Kenya.

Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa

Stephanie Achieng’ 3 Jul 2025
Australia's iconic Bogong moths migrate twice a year guided by stars and the Milky Way. Image courtesy of Ajay Narendra, Macquarie University.

Bogong moths use stars and the Milky Way to make epic migration

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Jul 2025
Banner image of a longhorn crazy ant by Ajay Narendra via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Longhorn crazy ants use ‘swarm intelligence’ to clear path obstacles

Kristine Sabillo 24 Jun 2025

Broadway Mall rewilding brings native plants and wildlife to New York City

Bobby Bascomb 19 Jun 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2025

Without vultures, carcasses are slow to rot and disease-carrying flies abound

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2025
The 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil found in Brazil. Image courtesy of Anderson Lepeco.

World’s oldest ant fossil found in Brazil, dating back 113 million years

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2025
A. rugioperculatus activity observed in Florida.

Invasive whiteflies pose a new threat to Bangladesh’s cash crops

Abu Siddique 15 May 2025
A giant girdled lizard, also known as a sungazer (Smaug giganteus). Image by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Traffickers slither through loopholes with wild-caught African snakes and lizards

Ryan Truscott 13 May 2025
Banner image of a striped albatross butterfly (Appias libythea) on a red leea plant (Leea rubra), courtesy of NTU Singapore.

Singapore study says roadside flowers can improve urban butterfly biodiversity

Kristine Sabillo 12 May 2025

Hawaiʻi’s bone collector caterpillar wears spider’s victims to survive

Bobby Bascomb 9 May 2025
Smoke from a factory.

Ground-level ozone wreaks havoc on warming planet

Mongabay.com 9 May 2025
A fall armyworm rests upon a maize leaf it has just destroyed

Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace

Sean Mowbray 7 May 2025
Beekeepers monitoring hive boxes at Kazirhat, Shariatpur.

Indiscriminate pesticide use threatens Bangladesh honey bees

Sadiqur Rahman 27 Mar 2025
Banner image of a flower warehouse in Netherlands by Naaldwijk Rijksoverheid via University of Cambridge.

An arachnid in your orchid? Ornamental plant trade risks spreading invasive species

Kristine Sabillo 21 Mar 2025
A monarch butterfly. Image by Sean Ewing via Pexels.

One in five butterflies lost in the US since 2000, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 14 Mar 2025
Banner image of a bumblebee in the U.K. by Flappy Pigeon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

2024 was worst year for British bumblebees: Report

Kristine Sabillo 12 Mar 2025
Banner image of a yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Dry season predictability and temperature drive dengue cases: Study

Kristine Sabillo 10 Mar 2025
Honey Bee, ''Apis mellifera'' flying back to its hive carrying pollen in a pollen basket.

Adjusting to temperature and providing water can help save Kenya farmers’ bees, study says

Wilson Odhiambo 28 Feb 2025

Decline of Cambodia’s native bees spells trouble for country’s farming future

Anton L. Delgado 25 Feb 2025
Banner image of Agroecotettix silverheelsi from Texas courtesy of JoVonn Hill.

16 new-to-science grasshopper species found in US, Mexico deserts

Kristine Sabillo 21 Feb 2025
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
Conservationist Wayan Wardika in the farm.

A Bali farm lights up the night with a one-of-a-kind firefly lab

Claire Turrell 23 Dec 2024

Monarch butterflies proposed for U.S. federal protection

Bobby Bascomb 13 Dec 2024

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