本刊推荐非洲昆虫科学家协会 (AAIS)第25届会议成果，聚焦气候变化通过昆虫媒介对粮食安全与健康的影响。研究人员围绕"Climate Change: Its Impacts on Insects and One Health"主题，通过生物防治、入侵物种管理等15个子议题展开研讨，形成36篇会议论文集。该研究为非洲农业病虫害防控提供了气候智能型解决方案，显著推进了"同一健康 (One ...

Although millions upon millions of living creatures fly, feed and reproduce in the air, this habitat has hardly been ...

Insects have been the subject of recent attention as a potentially environmentally sustainable and nutritious alternative to traditional protein sources. The purpose of this paper is to test the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a honeybee. In many ways, your world is small. Your four delicate wings, each less than a centimeter ...

While often overlooked, insects pose significant threats to human health, transmitting deadly diseases like malaria and ...

Insects are often tiny and easily overlooked, yet some pose serious threats to human health and life, either through venomous stings, aggressive behaviour, or disease transmission. Understanding which ...

In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments. I ...

Associate Professor and Curator of Insects, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Insects are everywhere – in backyards, balconies and the park down the street. In fact, numerically ...

At any given moment, it’s estimated that 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects are alive and kicking on planet Earth. We don’t blame you if you’re not a fan of them all—but ...

Billions more hungry mouths are going to put more strain on the planet’s resources. Can eating creepy crawlies offer a solution? Emily Anthes reports. At first my meal seems familiar, like countless ...