According to a new study by the University of Würzburg, Bavarian meadows are the most monotonous insect habitats. Surprisingly, fields and settlements often offer more diversity than grassland.

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 massive decline of over 75% insect biomass reported from Germany between 1989 and 2013 by expert citizen scientists proves the urgent need for new methods and standards for fast and wide-scale ...

Widely reported studies this year and last led to headlines globally of an “insect Armageddon.” The real story is more nuanced — but probably just as unsettling. We are glad to share Ensia articles ...

Insect decline is being driven by losses among the locally more common species, according to a new study. The meta-analysis of 923 locations around the world notes two significant trends: 1) the ...

In recent years, the number of insects in a given ecosystem (biomass) and the number of insect species (biodiversity) has been declining. Some research in protected areas of Germany, for example, ...

On a routine trip to an Arkansas Walmart to pick up milk, a university scientist made a historically buggy discovery. Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State University's Insect Identification Lab, ...

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