2026 May 11: 'Insect apocalypse' is already fueling malnutrition in some regions, first-of-its-kind study reveals
[on Live Science] [on archive.org]
2026 May 06: Pollinators support the nutrition and income of vulnerable communities
[on Nature]
2026 Apr 24: Butterflies Are in Dramatic Decline Across North America. A Close Look at the Western Monarch Shows Why
[on Smithsonian] [on archive.org]
2026 Apr 01: Insects in the tropics are already near their heat limits – climate change could push many beyond survival
[on The Conversation] [on archive.org]
2026 Feb 20: Insect Decline Exposed: Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Chaos, and Human Peril Ahead
[on Nature World News] [on archive.org]
2025 Nov 25: A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies. Can we stop it before it's too late?
[on Live Science] [on archive.org]
2025 Oct 27: Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2025 Sep 15: El Niño May Be Driving Insect Decline in the Tropics
[on EOS] [on archive.org]
2025 Sep 12: Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds
[on NPR] [on archive.org]
2025 Sep 11: Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2025 Sep 04: Long-term decline in montane insects under warming summers
[on Ecosphere]
2025 July/August: Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here’s What’s Being Done to Save Them Both
[on Smithsonian] [on archive.org]
2025 Jun 03: ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2025 Apr 22: Insects are disappearing due to agriculture – and many other drivers, new research reveals
[on BingUNews] [on archive.org]
2025 Apr 22: Meta-synthesis reveals interconnections among apparent drivers of insect biodiversity loss
[on Bio Science] [on archive.org]
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2026 Feb 25: Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration
[on Science News] [on archive.org]
2024 Dec 02: Bee-harming pesticides found in majority of English waterways
[on BBC] [on archive.org]
2023 Nov 10: Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2024 Aug 27: Global Food Production Is Being Limited by a Lack of Pollinators
[on Technology Networks] [on archive.org]
2024 Aug 10: Innovative Foraging Behavior of Urban Birds: Use of Insect Food Provided by Cars
[on MDPI] [on archive.org]
2023 Aug 03: USGS wants dead butterflies, moths from Central Kansas
[on Great Bend Post] [on archive.]
2023 Aug 03: Long-term declines in insect abundance and biomass in a subalpine habitat
[on Ecosphere] [on archive.org]
2023 Jul 02: Hottest June kills UK fish and threatens insects
[on BBC] [on archive.org]
2023 May 01: Insect Numbers Are on the Decline – What Is Happening?
[on SciTechDaily] [on archive.org]
2023 Feb 15: More Dramatic Insect Decline Confirms Inadequate Action on Pending Biodiversity Collapse
[on Beyond Pesticides] [on archive.org]
2023 Feb 06: There’s an insect population decline, here’s how to help
[on Sustainable Review] [on archive.org]
2023 Feb 03: The global biomass and number of terrestrial arthropods
[on Science] [on archive.org]
2023 Feb 01: Protected areas fail to safeguard more than 75% of global insect species
[on Science Daily] [on archive.org]
2023 Jan 09: Global pollinator losses causing 500,000 early deaths a year – study
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2022 Nov 07: Scientists' warning on climate change and insects
[on Ecosphere] [on archive.org]
2022 Jul 27: Les signes d’un déclin des insectes s’accumulent au Québec
[on Le Devoir] [on archive.ph]
2022 Jul 21: Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered
[on AP News] [on archive.org]
2022 May 05: Flying insect numbers have plunged by 60% since 2004, GB survey finds
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2022 Apr 28: Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes
[on Wiley] [on Sci-Hub]
2022 April 21: The Two Drivers of Massive Insect Population Die-Off Have Finally Been Identified
[on Science Alert] [on archive.org]
2022 Apr 20: Human activity is pushing parts of the world toward an insect apocalypse, study suggests
[on CNN] [on archive.org]
2022 Apr 20: Agriculture and climate change are reshaping insect biodiversity worldwide
[on Nature] [on Sci-Hub]
2022 Mar 06: The loss of insects is an apocalypse worth worrying about
[on Vox] [on archive.org]
2022 Feb 24: The world's insect population is in decline — and that's bad news for humans
[on NPR] [on archive.org]
2022 Jan 11: How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2022 Jan 02: Industrialized Farming Has Unleashed an Insect Apocalypse
[on Truthout] [on archive.org]
2021 Oct 25: Experimental evidence for neonicotinoid driven decline in aquatic emerging insects
[on PNAS] [on archive.org]
2021 Jul 25: The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’
[on The Guardian] [on archive.ph]
2021 Jul 20: This butterfly is the first U.S. insect known to go extinct because of people
[on Science News] [on archive.org]
2021 Apr 23: Abundance of spring- and winter-active arthropods declines with warming
[on Ecosphere] [on ]
2021 Mar 04: Fewer butterflies seen across the warming, drying landscapes of the American West
[on Nevada Today] [on archive.org]
2021 Jan 11: Insect populations suffering death by 1,000 cuts, say scientists
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2021 Jan 11: Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts
[on PNAS] [on archive.org]
2021 Jan 11: Insect biomass decline scaled to species diversity: General patterns derived from a hoverfly community
[on PNAS] [on archive.org]
2020 November: One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic
[on Mongabay] [on archive.org]
2020 Sep 17: Mobile phone radiation may be killing insects: German study
[on Phys.org] [on archive.org]
2020 Aug 10: Insect apocalypse? Not so fast, at least in North America
[on The Conversation] [on archive.org]
2020 Apr 29: Starving grasshoppers? How rising carbon dioxide levels may promote an ‘insect apocalypse'
[on Science] [on archive.org]
2020 Apr 23: Nature crisis: 'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought
[on BBC] [on archive.org]
2020 Apr 23: Insect numbers down 25% since 1990, global study finds
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2020 Apr 23: Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances
[on Science] [on Sci-Hub]
2020 Mar 13: Extreme El Niño drought, fires contribute to Amazon insect collapse: Study
[on Mongabay] [on archive.org]
2020 Feb 06: Bumblebees are going extinct in a time of ‘climate chaos’
[on National Geographic] [on archive.org]
2020 Feb 06: Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents
[on Science] [on Sci-Hub]
2020 Feb 01: Light Pollution Isn’t Just a Problem for Stargazers
[on Scientific American] [on archive.org]
2020 Jan 18: The Playbook for Poisoning the Earth
[on The Intercept] [on archive.org]
2020 Jan 06: Urgent new ‘roadmap to recovery’ could reverse insect apocalypse
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2019 Nov 13: ‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2019 Oct 31: Fishery collapse ‘confirms Silent Spring pesticide prophecy'
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2019 Oct 30: 'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded
[on BBC] [on archive.org]
2019 Oct 30: New study confirms severe decline in insects
[on DW] [on archive.org]
2019 Oct 02: Fearing the ‘Insect Apocalypse’? Renowned Entomologist Says ‘Get Rid of Your Lawn’
[on WTTW News] [on archive.org]
2019 Sep 30: Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change
[on Phys.org] [on archive.org]
2019 Sep 17: Bogong moth tracker launched in face of 'unprecedented' collapse in numbers
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2019 Aug 29: Pesticides Linked to Deaths of Millions of Bees in Brazil
[on Yale E360] [on archive.org]
2019 Aug 06: Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in toxic pesticides
[on National Geographic] [on archive.org]
2019 Aug 06: New Evidence Shows Popular Pesticides Could Cause Unintended Harm To Insects
[on NPR] [on archive.org]
2019 Aug 06: An assessment of acute insecticide toxicity loading (AITL) of chemical pesticides used on agricultural land in the United States
[on PLOS] [on archive.org]
2019 Aug 05: Neonicotinoids in excretion product of phloem-feeding insects kill beneficial insects
[on PNAS] [on archive.org]
2019 Jul 29: Bugged By Insects? 'Buzz, Sting, Bite' Makes The Case For 6-Legged Friends
[on NPR] [on archive.org]
2019 Jul 01: Insects could die out ‘in worst extinction since the dinosaurs’, experts warn
[on Yahoo] [on archive.org]
2019 Jul 01: Insect apocalypse: German bug watchers sound alarm
[on Phys.org] [on archive.org]
Mongabay's The Great Insect Crisis series:
• 2019 Jun 24: Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline
[on Mongabay] [on archive.org]
• 2019 Jun 13: How to save insects and ourselves
[on Mongabay] [on archive.org]
• 2019 Jun 10: The tropics in trouble and some hope
[on Mongabay] [on archive.org]
• 2019 Jun 06: Vanishing act in Europe and North America
[on Mongabay] [on archive.org]
• 2019 Jun 03: A global look at a deepening crisis
[on Mongabay] [on archive.org]
2019 May 07: Insects Are 'Glue in Nature' and Must Be Rescued to Save Humanity, Says Top Scientist
[on Common Dreams] [on archive.org]
2019 Apr 01: Butterfly numbers fall by 84% in Netherlands over 130 years – study
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2019 Feb 19: Is the Insect Apocalypse Really Upon Us?
[on The Atlantic] [on archive.ph]
2019 Feb 18: Trump EPA OKs ‘Emergency’ to Dump Bee-Killing Pesticide on 16 Million Acres
[on EcoWatch] [on archive.org]
2019 Feb 18: What happens to the natural world if all the insects disappear?
[on The Conversation] [on archive.org]
2019 Feb 13: The Staggering Worldwide Decline of Insects Is a Warning of Ecosystem Collapse
[on Popular Mechanics] [on archive.org]
2019 Feb 10: Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2019 Jan 31: Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers
[on Science Direct] [on archive.org (PDF)]
2019 Jan 15: Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2018 Nov 13: Heatwaves can 'wipe out' male insect fertility
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2018 Oct 30: Insect populations are declining around the world. How worried should we be?
[on Ensia] [on archive.org]
2018 Oct 20: Were the sharp declines of dragonfly populations in the 1990s in Japan caused by fipronil and imidacloprid? An analysis of Hill’s causality for the case of Sympetrum frequens
[on National Library of Medicine] [on archive.org]
2018 Oct 17: New Study Reveals 'Hyper-Alarming' Decline of Rainforest Insect Populations
[on Mental Floss] [on archive.org]
2018 Oct 15: Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web
[on PNAS] [on archive.org]
2018 Sep 19: Microplastics can spread via flying insects, research shows
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2018 Jun 17: Where have all our insects gone?
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2018 Feb 23: Insect population decline leaves Australian scientists scratching for solutions
[on ABC News] [on archive.org]
2017 Oct 18: Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
[on The Guardian] [on archive.org]
2017 Oct 18: Insects decline dramatically in German nature reserves: study
[on Phys.org] [on archive.org]
2017 Oct 18: More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
[on PLOS] [on archive.org]
2017 Mar 26: Buggy Harris Lecture details all the ways humans need insects
[on UMSL Daily] [on archive.org]
2016 July 08: Vanishing Act: Why Insects Are Declining and Why It Matters
[on resilience] [on archive.org]
2016 May 02: Flow Management for Hydropower Extirpates Aquatic Insects, Undermining River Food Webs
[on BioScience] [on Sci-Hub]
2012 Spineless: Status and trends of the world’s invertebrates (PDF)
[on Zoological Society of London] [on archive.org]
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman