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A black soldier fly.

Strengthening crops with insect exoskeletons? Study says yes, by way of the soil

Juliette Portala 12 Jun 2023

A Guarani community brings native bees back in the shadow of São Paulo

Lais Modelli 18 May 2023

Ethiopia used chemicals to kill locusts. Billions of honeybees disappeared

Malavika Vyawahare 1 May 2023
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Monarch butterflies become a powerful symbol for justice at the U.S./Mexico border (commentary)

Meg Perret 31 Mar 2023
A golden blue-legged baboon spider.

Study: Online trade in arachnids threatens some species with extinction

Ryan Truscott 1 Mar 2023
A researcher shows one of the illustrations that are part of the stingless bee project. Image courtesy of Conservation International Colombia.

Indigenous women record age-old knowledge of bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Astrid Arellano 8 Feb 2023

Pollinator declines linked to half million early human deaths annually: Study

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2023
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Western monarch populations reach highest number in decades

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
Lulilan obscurus is a newly discovered scorpionfly from Nepal. Image courtesy of Rainer Willmann

‘Bizarre’ newly classified scorpionfly shines light on Nepal’s insect diversity

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Dec 2022
Red ants forming chains.

How many ants live on Earth? At least 20 quadrillion, scientists say

Shannon Banks 12 Dec 2022
An orange-tip butterfly.

Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2022
A cordycep dealer.

Local coverage of Nepal’s ‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest lacks eco focus, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Oct 2022

Expedition reveals the amazing nocturnal fauna in the Amazon Rainforest

Suzana Camargo 17 Oct 2022
A Charonias theano butterfly

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022
Monarch butterfly feeding on non-native bull thistle at the Metropolitan Beach Metropark Nature Area, Clinton, MI. Image by Steve Burt via Creative Commons 2.0 license.

Is invasive species management doing more harm than good? (commentary)

Janae Malpas 14 Jul 2022

‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jun 2022
A huge swarm of locusts devours corn

High tech early warning system could curb next South African locust swarms

Anna Majavu 29 Jun 2022
Crotch’s bumble bee (Bombus crotchii) on milkweed flowers

California court ruling opens door for protection of insects as endangered species

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jun 2022
A blue-grey tanager

Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2022

That ‘killer’ spider story you read online? Fake news, most probably

Cassie Freund 20 May 2022

The amazing — and unknown — diversity of insects living in the Amazon canopy

Suzana Camargo 5 Apr 2022

Climate crisis forecasts a fragile future for wildflowers and pollinators

Spoorthy Raman 1 Apr 2022

For a beekeeping couple in Costa Rica, pesticides are killing the buzz

Monica Pelliccia 1 Apr 2022

‘Prospect of existence’: Nameless grasshopper sparks taxonomic debate

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 7 Mar 2022

Researchers puzzle over sea-crossing migration of crimson rose butterflies

Malaka Rodrigo 1 Mar 2022

Air pollution makes it tough for pollinators to stop and smell the flowers

Liz Kimbrough 10 Feb 2022

New assessment finds dragonflies and damselflies in trouble worldwide

Spoorthy Raman 9 Feb 2022

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows

Luís Patriani 3 Jan 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021
Worker bees cluster on the honeycomb to eat and deposit nectar. Photo by Jude Coleman

Honey bees find food more easily in cities, thanks to abundant urban gardens

Jude Coleman 15 Nov 2021

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