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Across the planet, billions of the insects take flight on their nocturnal errands. Few places host more species than California’s Mojave Desert, a center of biodiversity for lepidoptera ...

“Collecting these insects was a highly specialised process ... “This fabric, found in a desert cave, speaks to the sophisticated knowledge of wool dyeing in the ancient world.

In the modern agricultural landscape, for insects it's a hostile environment, it's a desert, if not worse,'' said Dr de Kroon. ''And the decline there has been well documented. The big surprise is ...

An invasion by desert locusts has hit large swathes of India and Pakistan in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Large and aggressive swarms of these crop-devouring short-horned insects have ...

Ancient fragments of fabric colored with red dye were found in a desert cave, and they serve as evidence of the oldest known piece of fabric made with insect dye. They date back about 4,000 years ...