SPOKANE, Wash. — The world is seeing a massive decline in the insect population and a local biologist said this could affect everyone. In 2014 a team of biologists from across the world found that the ...

Grasshoppers, Japanese beetles, June beetles and many other insects occupy fairly commonplace niches. The adults feed on foliage and lay their eggs in the soil. From masterful disguises to physical ...

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In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic University and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, presented ...

Tommi Nyman of the University of Joensuu in Finland together with colleagues from Sweden and Germany uncovered a food web involving willow trees, sawflies, and the parasites feeding on sawfly larvae.

The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists. New fossil evidence shows that at certain times and ...

The abundance of large orb web spiders in the Swiss midland has declined drastically over the last 40 years. The main reason for this is the shrinking food supply available to these insectivorous ...

Silent assassin. A predatory Australian insect creeps up on spiders undetected by breaking their webs thread-by-thread and suppressing the resulting vibrations. Spiders are highly attuned to ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

Learn more about amber from South America, which reveals a warm, wet forest filled with insects, springtails, and spiders.