The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, butterflies and flies ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, ...

Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of label information from digitized insect specimens. The ...

Experts have accepted an estimate of around six million living insect species, an appraisal that has stood for the last 40 ...

It's a living flash of color in the Central American rainforest! Dan Smith shows how this hot-pink insect still manages to ...

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI ...

A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

Jennifer Angus uses her bare fingers to delicately remove a pin holding down the thorax of a large, green insect affixed to a foam board she had used to transport its body. She must be careful: the ...

Here’s why the invasive Asian giant hornet’s identification is actually a scientific success story. Abigail Eisenstadt The Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia, can grow up to two inches long and is a ...

A first-of-its-kind study used herbarium specimens to track insect herbivory across more than a century, and found that, across four species -- shagbark hickory (Carya ovata), swamp white oak (Quercus ...