People do not know how to survive without insects: Human Development Report 2022

Humanity faces the mind-boggling challenge of growing food and other agricultural products at scale without an abundance of insects, …

Humanity must prevent the insect apocalypse

Most insects are not harmful but beneficial to humans; without them, nature will lose its balance

The world of six-legged creatures

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Check mate

Females of some insect species dominate males. Why?

Is air pollution contributing to the ‘insect apocalypse’? Yes, experts tell DTE

Pollutants affect certain insects more than others; they can kill them or mess with their  ability to sniff flowers, lowering pollination …

Is the world hurtling towards an ‘Insect Apocalypse’?

New study warns that more than 40 per cent of insect species are declining and a third are endangered

Dog food made from insects launched in the UK

Such food could help in the struggle against climate change, proponents say

Pollution in cities damaging insects and ecosystems: study

Research reveals plants and insects exposed to high levels of nitrogen dioxide–a major component of smog–produce more defensive …

A will where there is a hill

Ants have found ways by which to make up for the loss of the queen. The perpetuation of the species and the continued use of the elaborate nests …

Could wildflowers and bug hotels help avert an insect apocalypse?

Enthusiasm for sowing wildflowers and building bug refuges rarely extends to ongoing upkeep and long-term monitoring

29 new insect species identified in south, North East India

ATREE, the Bengaluru-based non-profit, identified many new species of wasps and ants found in the Western Ghats and the North East in the last …

Insect taxonomy expertise in Europe may be at risk, says new study

According to a new report, the number of scientists who specialise in the identification and discovery of insect species — also known as …

Loony crabs

Batty architects

Sticky relations

Wax coating from their nest helps wasps recognise siblings.

Butterfly effect

A recent study shows how a species reacts to warmer temperatures across the entire range of its habitat

A case of tolerance

Studies on heat shock protein synthesis in mosquitoes leads on to significant pointers to pesticide use and transmission of diseases

Bitten by the e-bug

Persistence helps masquerading ant raiders

Similarities between human beings and social insects extend to even stealing. One ant species, probably too lazy to forage, has found that when …

Earwigs are the hero single mothers of the insect world – and good for your garden too

They are nature’s pest controllers

Trillions of cicadas about to emerge from underground in 15 US states

Scientists say this is a sign that despite pollution, the climate crisis and dramatic biodiversity loss, something is still right with nature

Ten myths and fallacies about afforestation

It is no panacea for increasing green cover

Why do conservationists hide when the bees dwindle?

It’s time the country’s policymakers and researchers turned their attention to insect-benefitting agriculture

Ants take the shortest route to success

An Israeli mathematician offers proof of how ants, without a bird's eye view of their terrain, are still able to follow a straight route to food

Tiny thing on eight legs