A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...

One might think that hundreds of insects gnawing away at a tree would be destructive to the local biodiversity of an environment. A local grasshopper on a tree in the Amazon rainforest. (Courtesy of ...

For insects, the Amazon’s canopy contains a dazzling multiverse. A new study finds that high in rainforest trees, insects live in ecosystems that vary wildly from the forest floor on up.

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most exotic and beautiful animal life on the planet. Recently, scientists have ...

Insects are to the animal kingdom what the deep sea is to Earth: largely unknown to science. “We think because we know the birds and the mammals that we’ve already discovered what’s on this ...

Tropical Insects 'Go The Distance' To Inform Rainforest Conservation. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 08 / 070809131630.htm ...

Bradford Lister, a biologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, has been studying rainforest insects in Puerto Rico since the 1970s. If Puerto Rico is the island of enchantment - "la ...

He had been on a hunting trip with four friends in the Amazon rainforest but got separated from his party on Jan. 25. Exactly a month later, last Saturday, he was found by search and rescue teams.

The Amazon rainforest is always thought of as a pleasantly warm and tropical place, but it has periods of cold […] The post Cold Fronts Are Sweeping Across The Amazon Rainforest, And Here’s ...

In a tropical rainforest study, 60 percent fewer insects visited traps illuminated in a golden glow. Researchers say the results may be widely applicable. Skip to main content.

Braving perilous river rapids in Suriname's rainforest, international scientists found six frogs and 11 fish that are among 60 creatures that may be new species, a tropical ecologist with a U.S ...

The long-held belief that plant-eating insects in tropical forests are picky eaters that stay “close to home” – dining only on locale-specific vegetation – is being challenged by new ...