Pinned and labeled eastern Hercules beetles are part of the Virginia Tech collection. Virginia Tech entomology professor Paul ...

BERLIN (AP) — In a strip of greenery between Berlin’s Natural History Museum and a busy street, bumble bees move swiftly between flowers while a ladybug makes its way along a leaf full of aphids and ...

Germany's Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union, or NABU, has organized its seventh annual "insect summer," during which it invites people to spend an hour counting the insects they see in a ...

The H2020 project SHOWCASE has recently launched an insect counting web application where farmer collectives, environmental organisations and citizen scientists can record and share their data from ...

To be a farmer, a forester or even a climate scientist, it can help to know a thing or two about insects, like what they eat, where they thrive, which ones pollinate and which ones spread disease. “I ...

Why Mongabay is reporting on California’s biodiversity Mongabay’s coverage of biodiversity has long been associated with ...

Britain’s insect population seems to be falling, and so about 100,000 people will arm themselves with “splatometers” next year to count them. The device is effectively a square of flypaper on a car ...

The biodiversity of bugs serves as a planetary early warning system. But tracking their numbers takes big thinking. It’s dark. Vegetal decay hangs thick in the air, trapped beneath the rotting innards ...

The NABU environmental group in Germany has invited people to spend an hour counting the insects they see in a 10-meter (33-foot) radius. It is the seventh year of the citizen science project, which ...