Sightings of one of the UK's rarest insects have tripled. The green forest hoverfly, distinctive for its metallic green and ...

In a corner of Hertfordshire, in one of the oldest agricultural research institutes in the world – the Rothamsted Research Institute, founded in 1843 – entomologist Chris Shortall spends his days ...

Certain insects - including ladybirds, butterflies and wasps - are thriving after the warmest and sunniest spring on record across the UK. Aphid numbers, the main food source of ladybirds, boomed ...

New evidence suggests there is some truth to anecdotes about today’s car windscreens being covered in fewer dead insects than in the past. A UK citizen science survey has found the number of flying ...