Spiders and insects are often considered pests. Some people would rather see the creepy-crawly creatures dead than buzzing around their heads or creating webs in the corners of their property. In part ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Tejon Street in Downtown Colorado Springs is seeing way more butterflies, moths, and beetles (and other such critters) this season as one bug-minded business owner works to bring ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Opening during 2020 with a large focus on insect taxidermy, the Novis Mortem Collective is all about bringing unique (and local) art to downtown Colorado Springs as well as ...

How could solar energy facilities contribute to insect populations? This is what a recent study published in Environmental Research hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how insect ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In a new paper, a group of 30 scientists offers suggestions for industry, land managers, governments and individuals to protect insects in the face ...

With just 1.2% of the world’s one million described insect species assessed for extinction risk, biodiversity assessment and conservation measures remain severely constrained. Sufficiently extensive ...

It may not sound very appetizing, but crushing up a variety of creepy crawlies and sequencing the DNA of the resulting "insect soup" may be an efficient way to catalog biodiversity and track ...

They’re nutritious, affordable, and always in demand. Learn how staffers prepare and deliver thousands of bugs each week to the animals living at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Gaming and virtual reality could bridge the gap between urban societies and nature, thereby paving the way to insect conservation by the means of education and participation. This is what an ...