A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

After much discussion, the scientific community settled on an estimate of around six million species. This conservative ...

For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

There may be three times as many species of insects than previously known, scientists warn - As many as 40 percent of the ...

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have ...

In a novel experiment at the University of Cincinnati, researchers recently isolated kissing bugs, fruit flies, mosquitoes ...

They also are conducting studies to better understand risks to patients from insects in medical settings. The presence of bed ...

To estimate global insect diversity, the team extrapolated further, comparing the number of different species of trees in the ...