13 January 2023
Will we be eating insects in the future? New Scientist's Alex Wilkins recently took a look inside a huge vertical insect farm in France to see what the future of food might look like and taste like.
13 January 2023
Invertebrate monitoring data from 1990 to 2018 show that protected areas in Britain are losing species at the same rate as unprotected areas
11 January 2023
The French biotech company Ÿnsect plans to open 15 mealworm factories by 2030. We looked inside their pilot plant to see what the future of food might look like
11 October 2022
Eating insects containing chlorpyrifos, an insecticide banned in the European Union but still used elsewhere, seems to make it more difficult for big brown bats to navigate
1 September 2022
Pheromones are often used by farmers for controlling pest insects but the chemical process for producing them is expensive. A method for making them using bioengineered oil plants could be cheaper
4 May 2022
A survey finds that between 2004 and 2021 there have been huge declines in the number of insect "splats per mile" on cars in the UK, with the fall particularly bad in England
20 April 2022
Warmer temperatures and intense agriculture may be responsible for a 49 per cent decline in insect numbers in some areas, with the tropics worst hit
23 July 2021
Microbes isolated from the stomachs of termites can decontaminate timber that has been treated with toxic preservatives, enabling it to be converted into biofuels more easily
2 June 2021
The world's insects are in trouble – if we start using pesticides to protect plants rather than killing insects it could make a big difference, says Théotime Colin and Andrew B. Barron
1 April 2021
Bees and other pollinators in the US, and probably other countries, have been exposed to growing levels of toxicity from pesticides over 25 years, despite the amount used falling at the same time
