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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
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

Lack of funds, cattle ranchers challenge Brazil’s sustainable farmers

Mongabay.com 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
Giant harvester ants. Image by sandradennis via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Kenya arrests 4 suspected ant traffickers, seizes 5,300 harvester ants

Spoorthy Raman 17 Apr 2025
Tiwai Honey Initiative product picture. Image © Ezekiel Kargbo for The Iris Project.

How a young beekeeper’s initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 31 Mar 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

Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees

Bobby Bascomb 12 Feb 2025
An entangled fish

Underwater citizen science reveals the specter of ghost fishing in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jan 2025

A venomous Australian spider turns out to be 3 species, not 1

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 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
Antarctic krill swim in swarms of billions. Credit: Aker BioMarine, Pew

Antarctic krill store massive amounts of carbon in the deep ocean, researchers find

Farah Aziz Annesha 29 Nov 2024
People walk in heavy rains in Dhaka.

Studies link stronger dengue outbreak in Bangladesh to climate change

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 22 Nov 2024
1_Alpine Mountan Blue (Albulina orbitulus lobbichleri)_Mustang_susceptible(NRDB1995)_©sanejprasadsuwal

‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Nov 2024

Prospect of mining is a bitter pill for Afro-Brazilian community known for its honey

Rafael Martins 8 Oct 2024

Ant queens cannibalize their sick young to prevent disease outbreak

Shanna Hanbury 4 Oct 2024

Climate change could threaten newly described ‘shiny’ North American bees

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Sep 2024
Gold mining erodes land cover in Pahuwato.

25-fold surge in malaria at Indonesia gold frontier raises deforestation questions

Zulkifli Mangkau 16 Sep 2024
Close up of the shiny, bulbous brown compound eyes and dark brown and blue thorax of a Gambles's flatwing's (Neurolestes nigeriensis). Image © Jan van Leeuwen.

Search for rare Nigerian damselflies finds forest habitats under threat

Ryan Truscott 22 Aug 2024

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