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‘You Belong with Me:’ Taylor Swift has a new genus of bug named after her

David Brown 18 Sep 2026
Guainia mountains

Nearly forgotten languages are finding new words for Colombia’s dragonflies

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2026
Butterflies on Mount Mabu. Image courtesy of Julian Bayliss.

Mozambique protects Mount Mabu ‘butterfly forest’

Shanna Hanbury 11 Sep 2026

Beetle larvae trick bees into feeding and sheltering them by smelling like flowers, study finds

David Brown 3 Sep 2026
A bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) in Albert Park, Victoria.

Bogong moths support Australia’s alpine ecosystems, but face uncertain future

Hannah Thomasy 25 Aug 2026

Daniel Janzen and the long work of bringing back a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Aug 2026
dragonfly Colombia

Dragonflies help protect water and ancestral Indigenous languages in Colombia

Manuel Fonseca 24 Aug 2026
A female Eupelmus curvator. Image courtesy of Taisuke Kawano.

Social media images lead to first recording of parasitoid wasp species in Japan

David Brown 6 Aug 2026

More than 100 queen ants destined for Laos seized in Mexico

Spoorthy Raman 27 Jul 2026

In southern India, beekeeping helps Indigenous women earn more

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2026

Sri Lanka intensifies fight against dengue and the mosquitos that cause the infection

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 2 Jul 2026
Tropical fire ants (Solenopsis geminata). Image by Francois Brassard.

Tiwi rangers eradicate invasive tropical fire ants in Australia’s Melville Island

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2026

Stingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jun 2026
Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) are found only in the island nation of Madagascar.

Australian authorities seize 100,000 live cockroaches in crackdown on exotic insect trade

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jun 2026

Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds

David Brown 11 Jun 2026
Male and female Kongobatha spinosistyla in North Queensland. Image by Maurice Allan.

Three new ‘planking’ praying mantis species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Megan Strauss 8 Jun 2026
Oxysternon festivum, the most common dung beetle found in the study. Image by Tom Murray via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds

David Brown 4 Jun 2026
Bumblebees tracked during the experiment. Image courtesy of Kimmo Kaakinen.

Household mosquito repellents may stop bumblebees from finding their way home

Shanna Hanbury 28 May 2026
Collage, Giant African Harvester Ant

Why are people buying pet ants?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 May 2026
image of Attenboroughnculus tau, courtesy of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum.

Scientists mark Attenborough’s 100th birthday with newly named wasp

Shreya Dasgupta 14 May 2026
Mama ring-tailed lemur with baby in Anja, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A Mother’s Day lesson from a digger wasp

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2026
Deforestation, climate change, and trade pose threats to the species, which has dwindled to a few hundred from some 750,000 in the 1960s.

US proposes endangered species protections for an imperiled Jamaican butterfly

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2026

Unusual ant interaction hints at mutualistic ‘cleaning’ system

David Brown 2 May 2026
Philidris nagasau, an ant species endemic to Fiji that farms Squamellaria plants. Image by Eli M. Sarnat via AntWeb (CC BY 4.0).

Novel DNA research shows massive native ant decline over hundreds of years in Fiji

Shanna Hanbury 28 Apr 2026
Açaí berry production in Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil.

Heat, fires and agribusiness squeeze traditional Amazon açaí harvesters

Carla Ruas 27 Apr 2026
Nancy Collins

Thomas J. Walker studied the songs of crickets and katydids

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2026
Hot pink individual of Arota festae. Image courtesy of Benito Wainwrig

Researchers find ‘remarkable’ hot-pink insect in Panama rainforest

David Brown 13 Apr 2026

Researchers uncover 10 new moth species and 7 new genera in Hawaiʻi

Bobby Bascomb 4 Apr 2026

Eastern monarch butterfly populations increase in 2025, but challenges remain

David Brown 24 Mar 2026

Scientists use rapid 3D scanning to create a digital library of 800 ant species

Spoorthy Raman 11 Mar 2026
What used to be a dirt road through the heart of the Ngezi Forest Nature Reserve has recently been widened to facilitate development. Image courtesy of Viola Clausnitzer.

Works on planned luxury resort on Pemba island go ahead despite concerns

Victoria Schneider 10 Mar 2026
Urania leilus (Uraniidae)

That “butterfly” you saw? It was probably a moth

Romi Castagnino 17 Feb 2026

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