Are ‘murder hornets’ from Asia invading North America? A Japanese entomologist who’s been stung by one and lived to tell the tale explains what’s true about these predatory insects.
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Pests can cause sudden and significant damage to homegrown food, but a little planning and intervention can help you cut your losses.
“Nairobi fly” are obvious due to their red and black colouration; these are warning colours of their toxicity.
Ponds create ‘insect chimneys’ which are a boon for hungry farmland birds.
Eating locusts is an old strategy used to get food after locusts devastated crops, but things have changed.
The largest study of insect declines to date gives us the best indication of how species all over the world are faring.
Humans obtain bacteria through the foods they eat. But how do bees collect bacteria that live in and on them? And where do they pick up these microbes?
Plants have evolved techniques for protecting themselves from heat and insect attacks – but when both these stresses happen at once, one defense may neutralize the other.
The game is a fantastic metaphor for understanding how extinctions cause ecosystems to become more fragile.
You’ve probably seen ants marching over your kitchen bench this summer. Should you get out the insecticide, or learn to live with them?
Wet and bulky cattle dung is very unlike marsupial dung that Australian dung beetles are adapted to deal with, meaning native dung beetles tend to leave it alone. But help from abroad is at hand.
Insect populations are falling as what they eat becomes more like iceberg lettuce and less like kale.
Bees aren’t the only species that has a queen.
Each B&B is a green sanctuary for pollinators, containing pollinating plants and shelters like beehives and nesting boxes.
Insects are essential to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems but species populations are being lost at a rapid rate globally.
In NSW, honeybees are listed as a key threatening process to biodiversity.
First come the beetles, then the birds: how nature is surviving, and thriving, after a summer of fires.
While many surveys show the numbers of wildlife falling, there is good news for some species – including pondskaters and various mosses and lichen.
A new study has found that European and North American bumblebee populations have shrank by a third since 1970.
Mayflies and stone flies are extremely vulnerable to water pollution, which has implications for the larger food chain.
Top contributors
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Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
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Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
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Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Research Associate in Entomology, Lancaster University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Mycology, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
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Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL
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Adjunct associate, CSIRO
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Biodiversity Management Officer, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of Bath
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Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
