Since the 1970s, the number of insects at Canada's Long Point Bird Observatory has dropped by more than 60%, according to a ...

Experts say bringing the role of biodiversity loss into focus alongside climate change may provide opportunities to better ...

A research group found that in female fruit flies, microorganisms enhance reproductive function, boosting the number of cells that form eggs and the number of mature eggs. This is done by controlling ...

A 'vital step forward' in understanding how insects respond to seasonal changes in the tropics The study's findings reinforce how seasonality is a key driver of flexible adaptations in the timing of ...

Short-term exposure to a rise in temperature can cause long-term damage to insects' ability to reproduce A warming world harms insects' ability to reproduce, which could have long-term consequences, ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...

The phenomenon of aphids born pregnant is one of nature’s most unusual reproductive strategies. In these tiny insects, reproduction happens at such a fast pace that newborn aphids may already carry ...