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Researcher Alain Senghor K. Ngute looking at a photo of a millipede on a laptop, and making notes on a clipboard on the desk in front of him. Image by Haimdu Mnendendo.

Tanzania’s ‘mountain of millipedes’ yields six new species

Ryan Truscott 26 Mar 2024
A yellow-legged hornet "hawking," hovering in front of a honeybee hive to pick slower-moving bees out of midair.

Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets’ and other invasive insects

Claudia Geib 14 Mar 2024

Night light, habitat loss & pesticides threaten Brazil’s bioluminescent insects

Bernardo Araujo 1 Mar 2024
Noman Masondo, a farmer in Chirundu District of Zambia, implements effective agroecological methods to cultivate his maize crop sustainably, Zambia.

Agroecological solutions better than pesticides in fighting fall armyworm, experts say

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Feb 2024

Like a moth to a flame: Science finally explains why insects flock to artificial lights

Liz Kimbrough 5 Feb 2024
The length of the newly described stick insect can reach up to 35 cm (13.7 in).

In eastern Indonesia, a child adventurer discovers a new giant stick insect

Ebed de Rosary 31 Jan 2024
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023
A miyamashijimi rests on a buckwheat flower. Image courtesy of Todai University.

Japanese butterfly conservation takes flight when integrated with human communities

Keona Blanks 8 Dec 2023
The first asynchronous roboflapper, built at the size of an actual insect. Photo: Courtesy of Nick Gravish.

Robotic insect reveals evolutionary secrets of the fastest flapping fliers

Eli Ramos 5 Dec 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous communities turn to native beekeeping to recover nature

Elizabeth Oliveira 16 Oct 2023

New research shines a light on Sri Lanka fireflies

Malaka Rodrigo 15 Jul 2023
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 Weekes 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

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