There's a new and exciting effort by hundreds of scientists in Brazil to count every species of insect in a small area of the ...

The result was a sample of 5.5 million specimens, of which around 600,000 will ultimately have sections of their DNA ...

To anyone with a phobia of insects reading this article, we’re so, so sorry. Australian researchers deep in the country’s wet tropics have identified a new species of stick insect – and it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent study suggests many Amazon insects already live near their upper heat tolerance, meaning rising temperatures could ...

A colossal stick insect found living in the highland rainforest of northeastern Australia could be the chonkiest (read: heaviest) bug the continent has to offer. "There are longer stick insects out ...

A new, jungle-proof automated light trap for insect monitoring documented in Methods in Ecology and Evolution and Integrative ...

Joey Essex was in for a surprise in the jungle - when he discovered that stick insects look like sticks. The reality TV star, 23, could not believe his eyes and thought that the creature was a spider ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study collected tens of thousands of insects from the rainforest canopy in the Brazilian Amazon and found that 60% of the specimens occur at ...

When you walk through a rainforest, you might feel like you're missing out. You can hear birdsong and insect noises from way up high. For decades, the rainforest canopy was called "the last biotic ...

A recent study suggests many Amazon insects already live near their upper heat tolerance, meaning rising temperatures could threaten up to half of species in some regions by the end of the century.