This massive achievement secures protection and sends a signal to the world that protecting nature is happening ...

Abandoned termite mounds are a newly discovered microhabitat for diverse insect groups in both undisturbed rainforest and ...

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.

A University of Utah experiment conducted in Peru's Amazon Basin shows insects increase the diversity of the rainforest when they munch on trees. Such seemingly destructive behavior keeps dominant ...

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

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 ...

Ants pick up the slack when other scavengers are absent from rainforest ecosystems, despite already doing the lion’s share of such work. Ants help to keep rainforest floors clear by taking seeds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...