Insect populations are plummeting worldwide, with major consequences for our ecosystems and without us quite knowing why. A new AI method is set to help monitor and catalog insect biodiversity, which ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...

The importance of insects / Geoffrey G.E. Scudder -- Insect biodiversity in the Nearctic region / Hugh V. Danks and Andrew B.T. Smith -- Amazonian rainforests and their richness of Coleoptera, a ...

In recent years, the number of insects in a given ecosystem (biomass) and the number of insect species (biodiversity) has been declining. Some research in protected areas of Germany, for example, ...

On a routine trip to an Arkansas Walmart to pick up milk, a university scientist made a historically buggy discovery. Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State University's Insect Identification Lab, ...

As native insects decline and introduced insect pests surge, Penn State has launched an Insect Biodiversity Center for the study and conservation of insects and their ecosystems. The new center brings ...

For nearly 10 years, an insect discovered outside a Walmart was only thought to be an “interesting” finding. But when the doctoral student turned professor showed his class the bug during a 2020 ...

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Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...