Human activity is currently driving a loss of natural diversity that some experts describe as the sixth major mass extinction event in the history of the Earth. The decline in insects is particularly ...

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Multiple predatory insect lineages have developed a raptorial lifestyle by which they strike and hold prey using modified forelegs armed with spine-like structures and other integumentary ...

Kumlien, Ludwig. 1879. "Contributions to the natural history of Arctic America, made in connection with the Howgate Polar Expedition, 1877-78 Insects: Hymenoptera, Nocturnal Lepidoptera, Diptera, ...

Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit). There is a growing ...

Researchers from around the world recently came together to answer a question that has been bugging the scientific community for some time: How old are insects? Using 1,478 protein-coding genes from ...

Newfound fossils have revealed a Jurassic ‘giraffe’: an insect with a prodigiously long, skinny ‘neck’ that might have helped the animal to conceal its large abdomen from its prey 1. Tong Bao, at Sun ...

An LMU team has studied the biodiversity of larvae from the insect order neuroptera over the past 100 million years. An LMU team has studied the biodiversity of larvae from the insect order neuroptera ...

Examples for mouthparts in extant (left) and fossil (right) lacewing larvae. Credit: LMU / Haug Human activity is currently driving a loss of natural diversity that some experts describe as the sixth ...

An LMU team has studied the biodiversity of larvae from the insect order neuroptera over the past 100 million years. Human activity is currently driving a loss of natural diversity that some experts ...