Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and recycling services but, despite concerns about population declines, little is ...

Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research. Pro-environmental behaviour increases among school ...

Dragonflies the size of hawks once stalked Earth’s skies. Scientists thought they knew why they’d gone away – but a decades old theory may have just been disproven ...

A true bug trapped in amber for 100 million years has revealed a rare evolutionary trick: it had pincers. But not the folding ...

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The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Chaos theorists refer to the “butterfly effect” to describe seemingly insignificant events — like the ripple of a butterfly’s wing — that can have unintended consequences. But there might be a more ...

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