"Extinct & Endangered," a new book by British photographer Levon Biss and the American Museum of Natural History features heavily magnified photographs of 40 species of insects that are either ...

No, fireflies/lightning bugs aren't going extinct, but their populations are declining, specifically in highly ...

For many people across the U.S., fireflies (or lightning bugs, depending on where you live) are one of the most cherished insects, with their beautiful flickering light displays on summer evenings ...

Photographer Levon Biss's project Extinct and Endangered: Insects in peril combines thousands of shots of insect specimens to create these startlingly clear images ...

The names are used interchangeably to describe insects from the Lampyridae family ... “I would say fireflies are threatened due to habitat loss, but they are not going extinct, some are adapting in ...

How Are Extinct Insects Made Official? Declaring an insect extinct comes with it a healthy dose of uncertainty. It’s much easier to know that there are no more Tazmanian tigers than to be sure we ...

Distribution and habitat of endangered American burying beetle in northern and southern regions. Journal of Insect Conservation. Vol. 21, February 2017, p. 75. doi: 10.1007/s10841-017-9955-5.

Two new populations of the UK’s largest and rarest beetles have been discovered on Dartmoor in Devon, less than 30 years after it was thought to be extinct in Britain. The blue ground beetle ...

A rare beetle might be extinct in England after a survey failed to confirm any sightings, a charity said. Conservation ...

Invertebrates are creatures without a backbone — like insects, worms, snails, arachnids, freshwater crayfish and mussels — and make up 95 per cent of the animal world. Scientists say more than ...