Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent study suggests many Amazon insects already live near their upper heat tolerance, meaning rising temperatures could ...

There's a new and exciting effort by hundreds of scientists in Brazil to count every species of insect in a small area of the ...

The result was a sample of 5.5 million specimens, of which around 600,000 will ultimately have sections of their DNA ...

Treehoppers, small plant-eating insects from the Membracidae family, are gaining interest among scientists due to their unique vocalisations and extremely weird-looking bodies. The insects live in ...

It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Würzburg researchers have investigated how animals react to this. Anyone conducting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hands holding a newly discovered giant stick insect named the Acrophylla alta species, Giant stick insect Acrophylla alta on a ...

A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide range of insects and other invertebrates in the Bornean tropical rainforest ...

Camouflage is a widely studied antipredator technique that we thought we understood. A rainforest insect, however, is rewriting the textbooks on the subject as it reveals previously unseen behavior.

Insects are crucial for the health of nature, whereas humans are not. And since insects are ‘dropping like flies’, does loss of insects mean nature is collapsing? That question of whether nature is ...

A recent study suggests many Amazon insects already live near their upper heat tolerance, meaning rising temperatures could threaten up to half of species in some regions by the end of the century.

It's not always cozy and warm in the Amazon rainforest: Cold waves can cause temperatures to drop drastically. Researchers have investigated how animals react to this. Anyone conducting research in ...