When it comes to protecting your property, you might be wondering, does insurance cover insect damage? Understanding your policy's specifics is crucial, as many…

Earth is experiencing a biodiversity crisis. Among the declining taxa are insects and arachnids, which account for most of the world’s animal speci...

It sustained some heavy losses.

It sustained some heavy losses.

It sustained some heavy losses.

Entomopathogenic fungi play a critical role in regulating insect populations, and representative species from the Metarhizium and Beauveria genera ...

Trump accused The New York Times of editing the image in a series of Truth Social posts.

【Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A】Insect herbivory triggers rapid local and systemic signaling in plants, including membrane depolarizatio

Steve Collins reaches up and pulls out one of the tens of thousands of thin wooden boxes that line the shelves in a garden shed outside his home on the outskirts of Nairobi. Carefully, he opens the lid to reveal a dark brown butterfly pinned to a board behind a sheet of glass. The insect’s torn wings are dotted in blue and orange. Cramped writing on the accompanying label says that the insect was captured in 1960. Mr. Collins caught it as a boy growing up in western Kenya. This Charaxes castor specimen is one of 4.2 million butterflies in the collection that has been his life’s endeavor. It includes insects thought to be extinct, from environments long since destroyed. And it is, Mr. Collins says, the largest collection of African butterflies in the world. Now retired, Mr. Collins is desperately seeking a permanent home for these butterflies. Collections like his are increasingly a thing of the past. Today, butterfly enthusiasts are encouraged to photograph, rather than pin, specimens. “We will become extinct before the butterflies become extinct,” Mr. Collins says of old-school lepidopterists like himself. Transfixed by insects Mr. Collins was raised on a coffee farm near the peak...

Insect ‘detectives’ have discovered two new types of large stick insects, showing scientists are still uncovering new species in some of Australia’s most well-studied landscapes.

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