Experts have accepted an estimate of around six million living insect species, an appraisal that has stood for the last 40 ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, ...

The sampling was conducted using various techniques, including tethered balloons (top left) and kites (bottom right), airplanes (bottom left), and high mountain nets (top right). The inset scatter ...

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Insect DNA has been gathered from the air and for the first time used to detect 85 ...

For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

How many insects and spiders live in 1 square meter (11 square feet) of meadow? What impact do humans have on this ...