Smithsonian Gardeners created a beautiful overwintering habitat for bugs in the Ripley Garden. Inspiration from Flora Grubb Gardens Everyone needs a warm place to snuggle up for winter. That includes ...

Tattoo Jep hornets: almost half the world’s insects could face habitat loss. (Courtesy: Kalamazadkhan CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons) Habitat loss may soon mean half the world’s insects, and many ...

A solar-pollinator habitat, dominated by purple prairie clover and black-eyed susan flowering plants. Bumblebees buzz from flower to flower, stopping for a moment under a clear blue Minnesota sky.

When it comes to research on habitats for pollinating insects, villages have so far received relatively little attention. The ...

Q: I was reading that worldwide insect populations are declining at an alarming rate and that 40% of insect species face extinction in the next 10 to 15 years. Use of pesticides and climate change are ...

Gardeners encounter many insects in their fruit or vegetable gardens and landscapes, only a few of which are harmful. Many insects actually help us, including three large groups -- the pollinators, ...

Many tropical insects are already close to their heat tolerance limits, raising concerns that rising temperatures could disrupt ecosystems.

So often we find ourselves scouting for the bad bugs in the garden and forget, or don’t even realize, that most insects are neutral or even helpful to us in our everyday lives. According to the ...

A review of 82 previously published studies of two major groups of insect species underscores reported declines in insect populations in Europe, and links these declines to human activities that ...