People do not know how to survive without insects: Human Development Report 2022

Humanity faces the mind-boggling challenge of growing food and other agricultural products at scale without an abundance of insects, …

Humanity must prevent the insect apocalypse

Most insects are not harmful but beneficial to humans; without them, nature will lose its balance

The world of six-legged creatures

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Is air pollution contributing to the ‘insect apocalypse’? Yes, experts tell DTE

Pollutants affect certain insects more than others; they can kill them or mess with their  ability to sniff flowers, lowering pollination …

Is the world hurtling towards an ‘Insect Apocalypse’?

New study warns that more than 40 per cent of insect species are declining and a third are endangered

Pollution in cities damaging insects and ecosystems: study

Research reveals plants and insects exposed to high levels of nitrogen dioxide–a major component of smog–produce more defensive …

A will where there is a hill

Ants have found ways by which to make up for the loss of the queen. The perpetuation of the species and the continued use of the elaborate nests …

Could wildflowers and bug hotels help avert an insect apocalypse?

Enthusiasm for sowing wildflowers and building bug refuges rarely extends to ongoing upkeep and long-term monitoring

29 new insect species identified in south, North East India

ATREE, the Bengaluru-based non-profit, identified many new species of wasps and ants found in the Western Ghats and the North East in the last …

Insect taxonomy expertise in Europe may be at risk, says new study

According to a new report, the number of scientists who specialise in the identification and discovery of insect species — also known as …

Persistence helps masquerading ant raiders

Similarities between human beings and social insects extend to even stealing. One ant species, probably too lazy to forage, has found that when …

Butterfly effect

A recent study shows how a species reacts to warmer temperatures across the entire range of its habitat

A case of tolerance

Studies on heat shock protein synthesis in mosquitoes leads on to significant pointers to pesticide use and transmission of diseases

Trillions of cicadas about to emerge from underground in 15 US states

Scientists say this is a sign that despite pollution, the climate crisis and dramatic biodiversity loss, something is still right with nature

Why do conservationists hide when the bees dwindle?

It’s time the country’s policymakers and researchers turned their attention to insect-benefitting agriculture

Ants take the shortest route to success

An Israeli mathematician offers proof of how ants, without a bird's eye view of their terrain, are still able to follow a straight route to food

The roachmobile

Researchers are teaching insects how to drive. This can lead to a wheelchair that can be controlled by twitching a muscle or two

Ants’ point of view

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'Cockroach milk is rich in proteins, fat and sugar'

Down To Earth speaks to Sanchari Banerjee, an author of a study on a unique species of cockroach's milk, which is the new superfood

Excrement is not a dirty word

In his much acclaimed book Call of Nature, Richard Jones reveals the secret world of dung—of humans, animals and birds

Why some bumble bees spend the night out

Bumble-bees infected with the larvae of parasitic flies stay the night out in the cold to hinder the development of the eggs

"Nature is not loved in India"

HARISH GAONKAR took his childhood passion for butterflies seriously enough to carve out an illustrious career in lepidopterology for himself. A …

Killer genes, green beards. . .

..and other dynamic stories on the politics of genetic behaviour. The evidence, of course, is scientific

The beetle and the bureaucrat

Eleven lakh sal trees face the axe in order to exterminate a beetle that is boring a hole into the image of the forest bureaucracy

Beetles for breakfast !

George Brossard is a man on a crusad. To inform the world that the insects hold the key to a global food security