Reduced breeding success in urban bird populations is well documented but this study is the first to show that insect-rich supplementary food during nestling development largely mitigates these ...

Even if insects don’t sound appealing to you, black soldier flies could play an essential role in the food chain in the coming years. In particular, these flies’ larvae can become an important source ...

Experts say bringing the role of biodiversity loss into focus alongside climate change may provide opportunities to better ...

The invasive spotted lanternfly is popping up in new locations around Ohio, already under a statewide quarantine. Here's what to do if you spot one.

Researchers aiming to lower the cost of mealworms were able to double the worms' size, but the larger larvae had fewer eggs and weaker offspring. Christopher Intagliata reports. "The price per pound ...

Explore the black beauty stick insect, a rare nocturnal insect from Peru with striking features and unique defenses.

Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

A stark reality has emerged from Ontario's Long Point Bird Observatory: over 60% of flying insects have vanished in four ...

Something is causing tree swallows across North America to shrink, and scientists tracking nearly 50 years of data just ...

With the summer solstice and first official day of summer on June 21, hot and dry conditions have already given rise to a very active fire season across Canada. The smoke from these fires has drifted ...

This past Tuesday (June 11), Dutch company Protix opened the world’s largest insect farm in Bergem op Zoom, a small town in the south of the Netherlands. Founded in 2009 by Dutch ...

Urban insect populations would need to increase by a factor of at least 2.5 for urban great tits to have same breeding success as those living in forests according to new research. Urban insect ...