In the search for gentler alternatives to address pests and diseases, chemical ecology has emerged as an innovative tool.
Many fungi lead triple lives—acting as deadly insect pathogens, decomposers in the soil, and helpful partners living inside ...
How many insects and spiders live in 1 square meter (11 square feet) of meadow? What impact do humans have on this ...
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, ...
New Official Statistics on insect pollinators have been published from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS) during Insect Week 2026. The data collected every year across Great Britain (GB) ...
Cell 25 in Block 9 of Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary is now a cabinet of curiosities representing the animal life of this stabilized ruin. Specifically, it’s focused on some of the smaller ...
Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) comprise a diverse assemblage of sedentary sap-feeding insects that exhibit remarkable morphological and ecological variation. Taxonomically they are divided into ...
When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects that ...
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Earth might be home to 20 million insect species—more than three times as many as previously thought, a study suggests
Insects are among the most numerous and diverse organisms on our planet. Practically no corner of Earth is free of the critters—even our southernmost continent has its own native insect, the Antarctic ...
A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...
Social insects, including ants, bees and wasps, epitomise advanced collective organisation, characterised by overlapping generations, cooperative brood care and a reproductive division of labour.
Roland Roth Ecology Woods is a 35-acre urban forest on CANR’s Newark campus. The tranquil woodland offers opportunities to study wildlife, ecosystems, and the effects of habitat fragmentation just ...
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