Taylor Swift is now the namesake of a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science. Sarah Schroeder, a UC Riverside doctoral student in entomology, hopes that ...

Taylor Swift, the award-winning billionaire singer and songwriter, is getting a new honor: The megastar is the namesake of several recently discovered species of plant-feeding insects from Australia.

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As global food systems evolve, many communities are exploring new sources of sustainable and nutritious food. Edible insects and other novel foods are gaining attention as alternative sources of ...

Also known as the tree lobster, this ultra-rare creature was inadvertently driven to the brink by European settlers Revealed: the top 10 invertebrates of the year Vote for your favourite here When ...

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A new estimate of insect diversity suggests there are at least 14 million to 20 million species buzzing and crawling around the globe. That’s double or triple other recent estimates, most of which peg ...

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Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

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A long-term study in Colorado reveals that insect populations are plummeting even in remote, undisturbed areas. Over two decades, flying insect abundance dropped by more than 70%, closely linked to ...

UGA researchers explore which invasive insects are harmless and which are destroying our ecosystems. What’s creeping in your backyard? Their names sound like something out of a comic book: the spotted ...