BERLIN (AP) — In a strip of greenery between Berlin’s Natural History Museum and a busy street, bumble bees move swiftly between flowers while a ladybug makes its way along a leaf full of aphids and ...
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 ...
3,938 moths are part of a major insect study based on artificial intelligence, and researchers from Aarhus University have just published their results in the scientific journal Sensors. They have ...
An electric zap may have just given crop scouting a boost. Z-Trap 1 is an electronic insect trap from Spensa Technologies allowing for remote monitoring of pest problems. Real-time count updates and ...
The entomologist has used the space to create a home for many of the more than 400,000 insect specimens that have been preserved on campus since the 19th century. The insects come from across the ...
Britain’s insect population seems to be falling, and so about 100,000 people will arm themselves with “splatometers” next year to count them. The device is effectively a square of flypaper on a car ...
The biodiversity of bugs serves as a planetary early warning system. But tracking their numbers takes big thinking. It’s dark. Vegetal decay hangs thick in the air, trapped beneath the rotting innards ...
Drive through the countryside in summer and you will inevitably end up with a windscreen plastered with dead bugs. The messy ritual has now inspired an innovative new study designed to look at what ...
Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute ...