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

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

A Peruvian scientist and her team are working together to make sure stingless bees are around for generations to come by ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Meet a katydid that sounds like a bird and is as big as one too! It's even able to modulate its call to avoid attracting bats ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

I n a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru ...

In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...

The consumption of edible insects, a common part of the diet of some Asian and Latin American countries, is tentatively ...

Trafficking of insects is a growing but overlooked aspect of global environmental crime - and legal systems are failing to ...

Beyond biodiversity, stingless bees play a stabilising role in ecosystems under pressure. By enabling plant reproduction, ...