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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 rest of the 200,000 specimens are spread out around campus. A collection of insect DNA is stored in Latham Hall along with jars of millipedes. A large collection of aquatic insects is still being ...

Certain species of insect are known to cause damage to historic collections. For more than a decade insects have been identified in traps set out in English Heritage properties, the data from which ...

If the United Nations gets its way, the American diet will undergo an amazing metamorphosis. According to the Associated Press, the U.N. is touting edible insects as a low-fat, high-protein food for ...