Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that ...

Many fungi lead triple lives—acting as deadly insect pathogens, decomposers in the soil, and helpful partners living inside ...

Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new ...

A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

We gardeners understand the concept of separating. We routinely separate insects in our garden into “good” and “bad” columns.

There may be three times as many species of insects than previously known, scientists warn - As many as 40 percent of the ...

Insects live in nearly every habitat, and it’s estimated that there are currently 10 quintillion insects on the globe. So far ...

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

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

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.