While insect populations continue to decline, taxonomic expertise in Europe is at serious risk, confirms data obtained within the European Red List of Insect Taxonomists, a recent study commissioned ...

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 ...

Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomy constitute foundational disciplines that underpin our understanding of biodiversity. Historically grounded in morphological and anatomical studies, these ...

Left to its own defenses, a farm field growing a variety of plants tends to attract fewer insect pests than a field growing just one type of crop. While scientists and farmers have noted that ...

Insect pollinators provide a critical ecosystem service by pollinating many wild flowers and crops. It is therefore essential to be able to effectively survey and monitor pollinator communities across ...

Scientists show for the first time that insects appeared on earth some 480 million years ago. They were able to adapt to environmental changes quickly and became the world's largest and most diverse ...

Baculoviruses occur widely among Lepidoptera, and in some species of forest and agricultural insects, they cause epizootics in outbreak populations. Here we review recent developments in baculovirus ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...

Stick and leaf insects are a strikingly bizarre group of insects with a worldwide distribution. They are famous for their impressively large body size and their remarkable ability to camouflage ...

Kevin Thiele receives funding from the commonwealth and state governments and industry for taxonomic research. He is affiliated with the Australian Academy of Science. His consultancy, Eubio ...