A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, ...

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and ...

Due to increased climate change, the population of insects is declining. The International Union for the Conservation of ...

Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school — they are putting them on the map and even discovering and naming new species. This means around 150,000 of our insect ...

Most insects are unstudied, but scientists created a global framework to understand and protect them using all available knowledge.

Knee-deep in a river of northern Thailand, scientists scooped up some sand with a net and sifted through it. Hidden between ...

Selenobrachys ustromsupasius was discovered on Romblon Island and is not known to exist anywhere else in the world, according to the study. The ustromsupasius tarantula was found at night near the ...

While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

Research like this is important for showing that insect numbers are declining, but they aren’t designed to pinpoint why it’s ...

Across the region, insect conservation is under-represented in research, funding and public discourse. Read more at ...