Germany's Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union, or NABU, has organized its seventh annual "insect summer," during which it invites people to spend an hour counting the insects they see in a ...

To be a farmer, a forester or even a climate scientist, it can help to know a thing or two about insects, like what they eat, where they thrive, which ones pollinate and which ones spread disease. “I ...

A BLOWFLY sits on a flower on a small green space, during a meeting of members of Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union, with the Associated Press ahead of the start of the Citizen- ...

The H2020 project SHOWCASE has recently launched an insect counting web application where farmer collectives, environmental organisations and citizen scientists can record and share their data from ...

Fruit flies have been taught how to count in a study that could explain why some people are bad at maths. Lessons learned from observing fruit flies could help understanding of human knowledge and ...

All around us, insects are speaking to each other: jockeying for mates, searching for food, and trying to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. Some of this communication is easy to spot—like the ...