Your taste for cheese and yoghurt may never have been satisfied were it not for illicit microbial sex.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Insects
Displaying 1 - 20 of 197 articles
Moths and insects cluster around lights at night. Why?
Insects are vital to sustaining life on Earth – and their numbers are falling fast. So consider ditching the fly spray and see what you can do to help.
Mosquitoes have intricate and essential relationships with plants. Understanding their important work as pollinators would help to understand their role in different ecosystems.
There needs to be more awareness of the benefits of insects as food, and support for farming and markets.
How do we know that bees were around when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth? The main evidence comes from fossils – the mineralized remains of long-dead organisms.
Certain wasps and flies which lay their eggs in specific species such as aphids could be a sustainable form of pest control.
It's unlikely that all species of bees will go extinct anytime soon – but current losses could still have a terrible impact on food supplies and ecosystems.
Reconsidering an old ecological conundrum comes up with a new perspective on migration, contact and trade in the Australia and Asia-Pacific region.
Fossil flies from what is now Denmark reveal some striking similarities between insect eyes 54 million years ago, and our own vision today.
For many people, the gentle blinks of fireflies flashing are a favorite part of summer evenings. An entomologist explains some lightning bug basics.
Britain's councils are cutting roadside verges less often to allow vibrant wildflower meadows to bloom.
Wildflowers, bees and butterflies – your lawn is a vibrant ecosystem waiting to be unleashed.
Tiny fairy wasps are so small they can lay their eggs inside other insects eggs, but they punch above their weight when it comes to keeping pests down.
Insects are high in protein and rich in other nutrients and, unlike beef and other livestock, have little impact on climate.
Don't let that fly land in your hospital room. It could be carrying dangerous strains of bacteria.
You can barely communicate with your kids, but these creatures are sending complex interspecies instructions.
They might be a hated household pest, but ants actually live fascinating and complex lives.
Alarm bells went off when several recent studies reported mass insect die-offs in different parts of the world. But reports of an 'insect apocalypse' have been greatly exaggerated.
New species are being discovered all the time, which only adds to the problem of knowing how many there are on the planet today. It also helps to know what we mean by species.
Job Board
Where experts find jobs
-
Professor/Associate Professor In Indigenous Health Equity
-
Using Advanced Artificial Intelligence For Competitive Advantage Industry Ph D Scholarship
-
Associate Professor/ Professor School Of Information Systems & Technology Management
-
Program Manager Nursing
-
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Bioprocess Engineering
Top contributors
-
Cameron Webb is a Friend of The Conversation.Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
-
Research fellow, University of New England
-
Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
-
Senior Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CSIRO
-
Postdoctoral researcher, Macquarie University
-
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York
-
Senior Lecturer in Insect Diversity, Stellenbosch University
-
Distinguished Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Chercheur à l’Institut de systématique, évolution, biodiversité (UMR 7205 MNHN-CNRS-Sorbonne Univ.-EPHE-Univ. Antilles), Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
-
Professor; Dean, Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne
-
Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
-
Executive Officer, National Collections & Marine Infrastructure, CSIRO
-
Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University
