While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect ...

Flying insects, such as flies, butterflies, and dragonflies, have thin, membranous wings that they move by altering their body shape. Birds possess strong wings made of bone and muscle ...

As I sprinted across the flower-rich meadow on the eastern coast of Cyprus, I could barely see my car. The air was full of ...

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and ...

Many Delaware groups, including conservation organizations, state agencies and Sen. Stephanie Hansen, D-Middletown, are ...

The diversity of plant community types provides habitat for a variety of wildlife species ranging from mice to moose, butterflies to bats, and daphnia to dragonflies. An array of communities ...

Most insects are unstudied, but scientists created a global framework to understand and protect them using all available knowledge.

Insects with true color vision—like many bees, butterflies and dragonflies—can see not only many colors, but also ultraviolet wavelengths beyond the visible spectrum of humans. — ...

A butterfly constructed of rose petals offers ... to cool their house in the countryside near Hiroshima and welcome in dragonflies, an insect that she believed represented the presence of her ...

A FASCINATING talk about butterflies was delivered to a group of retirees. The talk, titled 'Butterflies, Dragons and Damsels', was given by Eddie Williams to Opportunities in Retirement members in ...

Insects like butterflies, bees and dragonflies are also highly imperiled, with 37% of U.S. bee species facing extinction. For plants, nearly half of cactus species are vulnerable, making them the most ...

Butterflies, bees and dragonflies steal the limelight This week, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme revealed that 2024 was one of the worst years on record for butterflies. It’s a similar story ...