Reduced breeding success in urban bird populations is well documented but this study is the first to show that insect-rich supplementary food during nestling development largely mitigates these ...

Something is causing tree swallows across North America to shrink, and scientists tracking nearly 50 years of data just ...

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

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

Researchers aiming to lower the cost of mealworms were able to double the worms' size, but the larger larvae had fewer eggs and weaker offspring. Christopher Intagliata reports. "The price per pound ...

Even if insects don’t sound appealing to you, black soldier flies could play an essential role in the food chain in the coming years. In particular, these flies’ larvae can become an important source ...

A U.S. study of moths and butterflies in Central Europe found that many of the species studied have produced an extra generation in the summers due to prolonged warming of the region. Dr. Florian ...

Christine Picard’s search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, but the blow flies, flesh flies, and other squirmy, wriggly things that wing ...

This past Tuesday (June 11), Dutch company Protix opened the world’s largest insect farm in Bergem op Zoom, a small town in the south of the Netherlands. Founded in 2009 by Dutch ...

Urban insect populations would need to increase by a factor of at least 2.5 for urban great tits to have same breeding success as those living in forests according to new research. Urban insect ...