Norway is home to 212 different bee species. Or perhaps rather: the country used to have 212 species. Insect numbers are generally in decline, and some bees are either struggling or have already ...

A researcher from Mainz University has published a special issue of Biology Letters on the causes and consequences of the worldwide insect decline as well as potential countermeasures Throughout the ...

Thanks to a historical data archive, Swiss researchers are able to draw conclusions about the changes in the diversity of two ...

A project asking people to count squashed bugs on their car number plates suggests flying insects have declined by nearly two-thirds in less than 20 years. The citizen science Bugs Matter survey, led ...

Concern about insect losses has grown steadily, but most evidence comes from small studies focused on certain species or places. That makes it hard to understand what is happening at larger scales. A ...

Researchers at iDiv looked at long-term trends of land-based insects, such as beetles, moths, and grasshoppers, and found that decreases in the number of the formerly most common species have ...

Insect decline is being driven by losses among the locally more common species, according to a new study. The meta-analysis of 923 locations around the world notes two significant trends: 1) the ...