Male stick insect hatches from all-female colony at Science World in 'extremely rare' event Experts wonder if a glitch in the cloning process led to the production of a male insect. 'That’s half ...

“How the insect produces laccaic acid has remained a source of mystery. For decades, scientists have unsuccessfully hunted for genes coding for its synthesis in the insect’s genome,” IISc said.

The RIKEN researchers hypothesized that insects could serve as living chemical factories, performing the types of chemical modifications to nanocarbons that are difficult to replicate in the ...

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 ...

Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s44358-025-00038-9 ...

According to the study, there are about a million known insect species around the world. Of these, just 12,100 species have been assessed under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Keep on upgrading your glaives and your bug friends will follow suit. Monster Hunter Wild ’s Insect Glaive isn’t the easiest weapon to use, but it can be very rewarding.

However, the mass farming of insects for food and feed is a modern practice. Over the last decade, the insect farming industry has been hailed as a silver bullet for many of our food system’s ...

Finding fossils of any species is an exciting discovery for science, but some are a little bit more special than others. In New Zealand, a 14.6-million-year-old fossilized bee has been discovered ...

Dr. Barrett Klein. Credit: Jen Towner Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, ...

“I don’t know any insect ecologist that doesn’t agree that insects are now declining,” Black said. “This was a question 10 years ago. It’s not really a question now.” ...