August is wasp season, when people get up close with Vespula vulgaris, the common wasp. Vespa, meaning wasp in Italian, is a name shared with the fashionable moped with its high-pitched engine ...

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 ...

Experts from the University of Nottingham have created life-size 3D-printed insect models to explore how some species trick ...

No, wasps are truly bothersome—at least to humans. However, nature has a purpose for these insects as well. Every animal ...

A new study from Macquarie University reveals that the chemical chlorothalonil, which is used globally to prevent fungal ...

Leipzig. Insect decline is being driven by losses among the locally more common species, according to a new study published in Nature. Led by researchers at the German Centre for Integrative ...

Letter to the Editor. Ian Bateman and Andrew Balmford contend that sharing land with agriculture for conservation purposes promotes only common bird and insect species, whereas judiciously sparing ...