The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, ...

Over the past two centuries, thousands of non-native insects have hitchhiked to the United States in packing material, on live plants, and in passenger baggage. Scientists with two U.S. Department of ...

Over 120 years ago, James May was hunting bugs in Brazil; using beer to get butterflies drunk before catching them. “It’s ...

Japanese scientists have shed light on the evolutionary biology and distribution of Stenopsyche caddisflies, also known as sedge flies, a common insect in Japanese rivers, and a local delicacy. The ...

Non-native plant feeding insects can be serious agricultural pests, but a new study estimates that many such invasive insects remain undiscovered. (Getty Images) Over the past two centuries, thousands ...

The open oceans are harsh and hostile environments where insects might not be expected to thrive. In fact, only one insect group, ocean skaters, or water striders, has adapted to life on the open seas ...

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AS a medium for the study of natural history the insects have no equals. The number and variety of their species and the diversity of their habits are such that they afford unrivalled opportunities ...

A surprise clutch of eggs has solved a century-old leaf insect mystery. A female Phyllium asekiense, a leaf insect from Papua New Guinea. Like many leaf insects, P. asekiense was known only from ...

Results from a recently published study suggest that efforts to reduce biological hitchhiking on live plant imports, often referred to as 'biosecurity,' are working. However, more than a century of ...

Scientists have shed light on the evolutionary biology and distribution of Stenopsyche caddisflies, a common insect in Japanese rivers and a local delicacy. The discovery also identified new genetic ...