Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

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 ...

Sometimes, a creature unknown to science hides in plain sight without anyone realizing its significance. In the case of one ...

Scientists have identified several insect species previously unknown to science in the richly biodiverse Richtersveld National Park. Internationally respected entomologists, Dr Massimo Meregalli ...

The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has identified infestations of spongy moth in seven counties across North Carolina, including Rowan, that it anticipates treating in 2026. […] ...

SANParks described the findings as further confirmation that the park remains a critical reservoir of largely unexplored biodiversity.

In December of 2025, a Natural History Museum discovery write-up reported that researchers finally untangled a long-running identification problem involving neotropical hairstreak butterflies. A ...

An insect species new to science, Tinodes lumbardhi, found in a river in Kosovo, is already on the verge of collapse.

Monarch butterflies are now listed as endangered.

The destructive insect has been destroying boxwoods in many parts of Ohio. One landscape nursery said it has been pouring ...

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Scientists have identified several insect species previously unknown to science in South Africa's Richtersveld National Park, South African Government News Agency (SA ...

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