Bringing back the mini-beasts

Insect numbers are dwindling around the world and that has an ecological knock-on effect, but we could help by encouraging the mini-beasts in our own urban backyards.

To bee or not to bee?

Insects around the world are in catastrophic decline, a disaster exemplified by a new study noting the disappearance of wild bees in South America.

Avoiding the “insect apocalypse”

Claims last year that we were in the midst of an ‘insect apocalypse’ may have been overblown, but international researchers – including some from New Zealand and Australia – say there is still cause for concern.

Insect populations face catastrophic collapse

A research review into the worrying decline of global insect populations has revealed the catastrophic threat posed to 40 percent of species over the next 100 years, with butterflies, moths, dragonflies, bees, ants and dung beetles most at risk.