A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.
Experts have accepted an estimate of around six million living insect species, an appraisal that has stood for the last 40 years. The post Are there 14 million more insect species than previously ...
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Bugs all the way down: There could be as many as 20 million species of insect in the world
It’s a question that has foxed biologists for centuries. Just how many species of animal are there? Well, a new study might have just blown all previous estimates out of the water, at least as far as ...
New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.
To estimate global insect diversity, the team extrapolated further, comparing the number of different species of trees in the AGC (1,200 to 1,500) to the tree species diversity worldwide (about 73,000 ...
A long-term study in Colorado reveals that insect populations are plummeting even in remote, undisturbed areas. Over two decades, flying insect abundance dropped by more than 70%, closely linked to ...
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