A beetle that lays eggs inside the bark of trees has killed six baobab trees in Oman for the first time. Urgent measures are needed to stop it spreading to Africa.

The emerald ash borer is exactly what its name suggests: a green beetle that bores into ash trees, destroying them from the inside out.

BENGALURU: An international study published in Ecology Letters, ranked seventh globally, has highlighted the ecological ...

You’ve probably seen a hoverfly. It’s a small, bee-like insect that hovers over your flowers in summer. Though they look like ...

One invasive insect on the radar in New York is the SLF which feeds on more than 100 plants, including several crops such as ...

This leaf beetle looks amazing, but does like to chomp through - yes you guessed it - asparagus plants. Asparagus beetles, or ...

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica ...

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...

Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people Black soldier fly larvae grow in a high-tech facility ...

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind discovery Thousands of years ago in what is now the Dominican Republic, ...