For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

New statistical analysis estimates Earth may host up to 20 million insect species, far exceeding currently known ...

After much discussion, the scientific community settled on an estimate of around six million species. This conservative ...

More than 60% of Australia's known insects are unnamed and a mystery to science. Of an estimated 500,000 Australian species, roughly half are insects, but many aren't categorized. A group of ...

There may be three times as many species of insects than previously known, scientists warn - As many as 40 percent of the ...

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Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

Imagine a world without insects. You might breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of mosquito-free summers, or you might worry about how agriculture will function without pollinators. What you ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research. Pro-environmental behaviour increases among school ...