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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
A caddisfly in the Oligotricha genus.

Insects are moving pharmaceutical pollutants from rivers to land; risks unknown

Sean Mowbray 13 Feb 2026
One of the specimens of Drepanogynis insciata photographed by Cameron Scott.

Citizen science rediscovers rare South African moth

Ryan Truscott 11 Feb 2026
Soil-dwelling springtails - tiny, insect-like arthropods of the class Collembola - are vulnerable to pesticides. Image by Alandmanson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Pesticides found in 70% of European soils, harming beneficial life: Study

Liz Kimbrough 6 Feb 2026

Mosquitoes in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest prefer human blood

Bobby Bascomb 16 Jan 2026

How many insects does California have? We’re getting closer to an answer

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2026

Ants need urgent protections from global trade, conservationists say

Spoorthy Raman 13 Jan 2026
Demetrio carrying out monitoring tasks. Image courtesy of Richar Antonio Demetrio.

When Indigenous knowledge enters the scientific record

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2026
Mushrooms in San Mateo County, California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

An inventory of life in California

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2026
Demetrio carrying out monitoring tasks. Image courtesy of Richar Antonio Demetrio.

‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees

Xilena Pinedo 2 Jan 2026
Photo © California Academy of Sciences

Chris Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2025
A looper moth (Biston suppressaria) in Assam, India.

Warmer climate triggers pest infestations in Bangladesh, India tea estates

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Dec 2025
Monarch butterfly resting on a plant. Photo by José López-García

Saving critical winter habitat for monarch butterflies may depend on buy-in from their human neighbors

Claudia Steiner 3 Dec 2025
A male black grouse, currently declining in Wales. Image by Vnp via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY-SA3.0)

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2025
Stingless bees in a box hive at the headquarters of Embrapa’s Eastern Amazon office.

Amazon’s stingless bee propolis shows potent healing power, studies show

Lucas Berti 1 Dec 2025

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