Light pollution is helping to drive the so-called 'insect apocalypse', experts warn, contributing to fears that 40 per cent of all bug species will be lost within decades. Artificial light at night ...

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Princeton attracts the world’s brightest minds like moths to a flame. Fortunately for us, the comparison ends there. While students lucky enough to attend the University can expect a phenomenal ...

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Insects play a crucial role in breaking down waste and in pollinating flowers. They may be tiny, but they have an essential role in the ecosystem. However, due to seemingly unbridled human activity, ...

Climate change, pesticides and land use changes alone cannot fully explain the decline in insect populations in Germany. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland ...

Insect light trap is one of the very effective tools of insect pest management in organic agriculture as it mass-traps both the sexes of insect pests and also substantially reduces the carryover pest ...

The first humans to sit around campfires probably observed a strange example of animal behavior that continues to perplex people today. They would have seen insects that emerge from the night and ...

A rainforest reserve, bordering the mighty Atlantic, in the Sao Paulo state of Brazil, is now in the news because scientists saw a flash of blue while they were gathering mushrooms. Indeed, this ...

(CNN) — At night, it’s not unusual to find a hoard of moths and other insects circling around a porch light or street lamp — but their reasons for being there are likely quite different from what most ...