Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide, but why? Agricultural intensification tops the list of proposed ...

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite concerns about population declines, little is ...

Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

Insect populations are crashing worldwide. It’s not just farming. Scientists mapped 3,000 causes and found many ignored ...

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the decline of insect populations in the world’s tropical forests. Insects, the most ...

“We know that insect biodiversity is changing, and that there have been many declines in parts of the world,” they wrote in a major review article published in the journal Science, recently.

Now, global assessments of insect biodiversity and climate change vulnerability have been lacking — primarily due to the limited and incomplete distribution data for most insect taxa. Larry Gall, ...

A new insect species has been named Campylomma singapura in a tribute to the rich biodiversity still thriving in Singapore.

Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide, but why? Agricultural intensification tops the list of proposed reasons, but there are many other, interconnected drivers that have an impact, ...

So there are these big areas that we know in general are threats to biodiversity, but the insect decline literature is really just focused on a few big stressors, as opposed to getting into the ...