Insect populations are plummeting worldwide, with major consequences for our ecosystems and without us quite knowing why. A new AI method is set to help monitor and catalog insect biodiversity, which ...

The importance of insects / Geoffrey G.E. Scudder -- Insect biodiversity in the Nearctic region / Hugh V. Danks and Andrew B.T. Smith -- Amazonian rainforests and their richness of Coleoptera, a ...

Scientists are already able to ascertain what species are present in aquatic environments, by analyzing the cast-off DNA which is present in the water. Now, for the first, a team has conducted an ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 20, 2025) A study in Conservation Genetics, entitled “Organic farming fosters arthropod diversity of specific insect guilds – evidence from metabarcoding,” showcases the ...

Scientists at Lund University have discovered for the first time that it is possible to detect insect DNA in the air. Using air from three sites in Sweden, insect DNA from 85 species could be ...

(Beyond Pesticides, February 15, 2023) Areas designated to protect insects fail to do so for over 75 percent of global species, according to a study, “Three-quarters of insect species are ...

Eliza Grames wasn’t planning to study insect population data, but postdoctoral scholars end up in unexpected places all the time. As a postdoc in Matt Forister’s insect ecology lab, she’s part of a ...

When you want to learn about ecology, biodiversity, climate change or even humanity, you might start by popping open your favorite internet search engine. But thanks to entomology, some of the best ...

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 ...

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

This study is led by Prof. Fuwen Wei (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jiangxi Agricultural University) and Prof. Gexiao Qiao (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

ENT copy 39088019590447 Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. ENT copy 39088020227922 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents v. I. Introduction / Peter H. Adler and Robert ...