Insects, vital for our ecosystem, face a steep decline. A study by Binghamton University reveals agricultural intensification and climate change as key factors. Land use and insecticides ...

Testing the reproducibility of ecological studies on insect behavior in a multi-laboratory setting identifies opportunities for improving experimental rigor. PLOS Biology , 2025; 23 (4): e3003019 ...

Between 17% and 42% of insect behavioral experiment results were not reproducible across laboratories, indicating that reproducibility issues extend to insect studies despite large sample sizes.

A regulatory deadlock exists between the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the country’s edible insects industry, deterring growth while putting established and fledgling businesses at risk. That’s ...

Columbus' upcoming spring will be relatively quiet as its cicadas remain firmly underground. Southwest Ohio will have no such luck. Cicadas from Brood XIV have been living underground for 17 years ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life — including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 ...

Cicadas this year will likely be concentrated in Kentucky and much of Tennessee. The insects from Brood XIV are also expected to show up in parts of Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina ...

The newly discovered moth species disguises itself as a larva by covering itself with insect parts. Daniel Rubinoff Researchers in Hawaii have discovered a rare, carnivorous caterpillar with a ...

The bone collector lives in spiderwebs and decorates its habitat with the body parts of dead insects. Scientists have watched the macabre insect measuring and attaching fly wings, weevil heads and ...

SATURDAY, April 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — From beetles to moths, leafhoppers and butterflies, the world's insects are vanishing at a breakneck pace. Since 2017, when European researchers ...

Over 100 investors, farmers, producers, and researchers have come from all over the world to Sutton Bonnington's University of Nottingham campus to discuss edible insects, which they see as the ...