Each year, millions of monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles across North America to escape the cold and find ...

One-third of everything Americans eat comes from pollinators like honey bees, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Insects are going extinct 8 times faster than mammals, birds ...

The knowledge may help conservationists better understand some of the effects of climate change—not only on the insects themselves, but also on their migrations and the ecosystems they inhabit.

The knowledge may help conservationists better understand some of the effects of climate change—not only on the insects themselves, but on their migrations and the ecosystems they inhabit.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Aerial Migration of Insects ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 209 No. 6 (December 1963), p. 132 doi:10.1038 ...

According to Igor Kirillov, US military experts have been actively ... The Pentagon has been weaponizing populations of insects that transmit the Ebola virus, hepatitis B, AIDS, severe acute ...

Let’s take a closer look at the migrations undertaken by a bird, an insect and a mammal. Perhaps the best-known insect migrant is the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) (Figure 3a).

Monarch butterflies make one of the largest insect migrations in the world, flying around 2,500 miles from the US and Canada to Mexico. During their migration they provide an essential pollination ...

This makes it possible for us to catch them for our surveys. In the Port de Bucharo, a mountain pass on the border of France and Spain, insect migration is funnelled into a narrow 30m-wide ...

Monarch butterflies are among the most beloved insects in North America ... During their incredible yearly migration, monarchs travel each fall to a few forested areas in central Mexico and ...