When the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County shut down due to the pandemic in mid-March, Lisa Gonzalez headed home with the expectation that she would be back in a few weeks. But once it ...

In 2015, Professor Gervásio Silva Carvalho of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) in the South ...

The leading group is so diverse that it represents one in every three animal species on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Deep in the high rainforest of Uganda, seven tiny frog-shaped insects have added an unexpected chapter to the story of life on Earth. Their bodies are only a few millimeters long, but their discovery ...

When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects that ...

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

The petrol-blue wings of a swallowtail butterfly, soft fur of a giant Patagonian bumblebee, and oil-painted smudges of a ladybug are some of the details captured by British photographer Levon Biss in ...

Bugs aren’t just occasional nuisances, they’re crucial to the environment. Now populations of species worldwide are falling at alarming rates. The extinction of the one-inch-wide Xerces blue butterfly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract (1) An updated list of numbers of phytophagous insects and mites associated with twenty-eight British tree species or genera is presented, ...

More than half of the insects newly discovered on domestic islands recently have been confirmed to be species that live in tropical and subtropical climates. This is due to the aftermath of global ...