Outdoor How Kenyan farmers are turning a locust plague into an opportunity The Bug Picture is empowering communities to come up with sustainable solutions to the plague.
Outdoor This 4000-year-old beetle is returning to the UK due to climate change The Oak Capricorn Beetle went extinct in the British Isles, but our warming climate could mean its impending return.
Outdoor 99% decline in butterflies since 1980s is 'horrific', say scientists Populations of the monarch butterfly have seen a 99.9% decline since the 1980s but still no protection is in sight.
Art and Design Cannibalistic ants and blue scorpions: The Bug Photography Awards From bees to beetles, here are the best in class from over 5,000 entrants worldwide.
Ideas The world's largest insect farm is being built in France It will raise hundreds of millions of insects to be used as a protein source.
Outdoor Shade could be key to saving future generations of butterflies Butterflies are the ‘gateway drug’ to getting people involved in conservation.
Ideas Honeybees can be trained like sniffer dogs to help boost crops Researchers have found bees can be conditioned to pollinate specific plants through scent-based memory techniques.
Ideas The innovative new project saving Zimbabwe’s bees from extinction Bees have been struggling to survive in Zimbabwe - but this radical sanctuary programme could be the answer.
Cuisine Belgian researchers serve up waffles made of insects Scientists at Ghent University are experimenting with insect-based fat as a sustainable alternative.
Ideas Newly discovered beetle named after Greta Thunberg The Natural History Museum in London has chosen to honour the young climate campaigner.
Cuisine High-class insect dishes from New York Soon crickets, worms and other insects might be more common than we expect and eating them can help save the environment.
