If you liked this story, share it with other people. Oceanic islands host 50 percent of the world’s endangered species, but human activities can greatly disturb these isolated ecosystems. The number ...

March 15 (UPI) --Much attention is paid to the impact of natural disasters on land and humans. Some attention is paid to larger animals. But what about the smallest creatures, insects and other ...

This article was originally published by Undark. Bees have long impressed the behavioral scientist Lars Chittka. In his lab at Queen Mary University of London, the pollinators have proved themselves ...

Demand for exotic pets and collectors’ items drives a flourishing illegal trade in beetles, spiders, and more. Found in the tropical forests of West Africa, emperor scorpions are popular pets because ...

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A legal quirk leaves officials in at least a dozen states with little or no authority to protect insects. That’s a growing problem for humans. By Catrin Einhorn March 4, 2023 It’s tough being an ...

THIS volume is a handbook dealing with the creatures inhabiting the Hawaiian sugar plantations—it is, in fact, a guide to the invertebrate fauna of the fields. It treats not only of species that are ...

After a 100-year flood struck south central Oklahoma in 2015, a study of the insects, arthropods, and other invertebrates in the area revealed striking declines of most invertebrates in the local ...

A group of science communicators declared March 1-8, 2022 InverteButt Week. What inspired this cheeky holiday? Scientists recently announced that the marine worm Ramisyllis multicaudata has hundreds ...