Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

To a close approximation, all animals on Earth are insects – both in terms of species numbers and biomass. To understand why insect communities are structured like they are, we need to understand how ...

Moth population changes impact insect-eating birds in Finland, especially in northern regions with short breeding seasons.

A new study explored how changes in moth abundance affect insect-eating birds in Finland. The findings reveal that the impact of moths as a food source varies between bird groups and is generally ...

A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf ... use a smartphone or computer to feed the photo into a web-based application called InsectNet and, with the help of machine learning technology ...

The specific insect culprits responsible for the damage seen in the fossils are not preserved as fossils and remain unknown. Giraldo said estimates indicate as many as 15,000 to 20,000 insect ...