How scientists are trying to save the insects that make life possible (www.npr.org)
Insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate (www.reuters.com)
How caterpillars gruesomely transform into butterflies (www.zmescience.com)
Head lice hitched a ride on humans to the Americas at least twice (www.sciencenews.org)
Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet (www.theguardian.com)
The Growing Utility of Online Photo Sharing for Entomology Research (entomologytoday.org)
Crusty creatures with 'rather complex' genitalia found in caves: A new species of millipede (phys.org)
Is it time for insect researchers to consider their subjects’ welfare? (journals.plos.org)
Three out of four populations of rare butterflies have been lost (science.ku.dk)
Praying Mantis says hi (777520800.blogspot.com)
She kills to be kind: the mastermind ecologist eliminating invasive predators (www.theguardian.com)
Mitchell's diurnal cockroach, Big Desert, Vic, Aus (inaturalist.ala.org.au)
Leveled up my bug spotting game over the weekend! Driving along a track in big desert; catch a moments glimpse of stripy pattern in a bush; bug alarm goes off; promptly halted our convoy for a cockroach appreciation session!
Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food (www.science.org)
Question on eggs and hatching (pics.letsfail.com)
Hi! Sorry, very new at the whole “bugs” thing, and I’m still learning. I spotted this the other day (not sure of the stink bug species, possibly Nezara viridula), promptly spent hours watching macro timelapses of stink bugs hatching, going from gooey babies to hard shelled nymphs…...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Ecosystem (worldsensorium.com)
Vladimir Nabokov’s Butterflies (www.newyorker.com)
Curious and cryptic: new leaf insects discovered (www.uni-goettingen.de)
Conservationists race to save critically endangered insect found in the River Dee in Wales (www.buglife.org.uk)
Staff at the conservation zoo, renowned for its work to bring species back from the brink, were called in by fellow charity Buglife Cymru to start an emergency breeding effort for the Scarce Yellow Sally Stonefly - part of a rescue mission to save the species from extinction following its rediscovery in the River Dee, North...
Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? (www.scientificamerican.com)
New species of wishbone spiders uncovered in field work (phys.org)
Spotted Latternflies, get 'em! (www.wbaltv.com)
Wee Mad Beasties (www.bbc.co.uk)
Glaswegian bugs from David Hamilton