Researchers at iDiv looked at long-term trends of land-based insects, such as beetles, moths, and grasshoppers, and found that decreases in the number of the formerly most common species have ...

This summer, you may have wondered why you are seeing so few insects squished on your car's windshield compared with a road ...

A researcher from Mainz University has published a special issue of Biology Letters on the causes and consequences of the worldwide insect decline as well as potential countermeasures Throughout the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using weather radar, scientists tracked flying insects across the United States for a decade. They found stable national numbers ...

Over 40 percent of insect species could become extinct in the next few decades, according to the “Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers” report, published in the journal ...

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 ...

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Researchers report that an insect's ability to find food and a mate is reduced when their antennae are contaminated by particulate matter from industry, transport, bushfires, and other sources of air ...

Since the 1970s, the amount of insects at the Long Point Bird Observatory in Ontario, Canada, has dropped by more than 60%, according to the new study. Researchers found that, as a result, birds today ...

Rather than revealing a nationwide collapse, the results show that overall numbers of day-flying insects in the air remained broadly stable between 2012 and 2021. That stability, however, masks sharp ...