Numerous scientific studies conclude that over 40% of all insect species are declining and one-third of them are endangered, largely because of habitat loss when industrial agriculture takes over ...

Fruits and vegetables are often sprayed with fungicides to keep mold at bay. However, new research suggests one of these chemicals could be quietly harming insects that are critical to healthy ...

A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is also killing beneficial insects that play a critical role in pollination and wider ecosystems. New ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...

Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that ...

Insects may be far more numerous than anyone thought. A new study estimates that Earth holds 14 million to 20 million insect ...

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, ...

Every spring, the air near my house hums. Bees and insects crisscross my yard searching for a sip of nectar, ferrying pollen between the golden poppies and California lilacs and bumbling across flower ...

Insects are disappearing, and they are leaving global food security gaps in their wake. Over the past three decades, bugs have been declining at an alarming rate across the globe — up to 1% per year, ...

In late 2017, a study by Krefeld Entomological Society looked at protected areas across Germany and discovered that two-thirds of the insect populations living in there had vanished over the last 25 ...

For more than a decade, scientists have reported severe declines in populations of insects. We didn’t need the scientists to tell us. Anyone who remembers the numbers of bugs that used to splatter on ...

Security lights might seem like a great way to make your home more safe - but they carry huge downsides.