AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...

Mosquito nets designed to prevent malaria transmission are used for fishing which may devastate tropical coastal ecosystems, according to a new scientific study. The researchers found that most of the ...

Scientists found that tropical regions were at the greatest risk for insect declines. The combined influence of climate change and expanding agriculture are causing insect populations to plummet in ...

The type of Welsh onions used in the experiment were a variety called Kujo negi. These onions are a traditional vegetable of the Kyoto region and a staple part of local cooking. Red nets are better at ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

The continued locust invasion has left farmers and pastoralist living around the horn of Africa. The climatic and ecological conditions in some parts of Kenya are at the highest risk of new swarm ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. What is the life of a cricket worth? Besides being big business, insect farms also ...

When you want to learn about ecology, biodiversity, climate change or even humanity, you might start by popping open your favorite internet search engine. But thanks to entomology, some of the best ...

Insects outnumber humans, and indeed almost all animals, in the number of organisms belonging to this class. Scientists say they make up over 950,000 insect species, with about 25,000 being bees, ...