Insects are arguably the most important animals on the planet. Their variety is unparalleled in nature, and they carry out vital tasks such as pollinating plants and providing food for other animals.
A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) estimates 10% of insect species on Barro Colorado Island may be cryptic, or visually indistinguishable from related species, ...
“Current evaluations of the heat tolerance of insects such as moths, flies, and beetles paint a differentiated – and at the same time alarming – picture,” explains study author Dr. Kim Holzmann, ...
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Amazon insects face mounting heat survival crisis
Large numbers of insect species in the Amazon rainforest may struggle to survive rising global temperatures, according to a sweeping scientific analysis examining the thermal tolerance of more than ...
Basset, Yves. 2022. [Dataset] Long-term monitoring of social insects in a tropical rainforest. Distributed by Barro Colorado Island, Panama: Smithsonian Tropical ...
Many insects, like this malachite butterfly, face critical heat stress under future temperatures. Photo by Kim Holzmann, CC BY Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of ...
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