The Daily Galaxy on MSN11d
The World’s Largest Insect Is Vanishing – And Chocolate Is To Blame
A giant of the insect world is disappearing at an alarming rate. The Goliath beetle (Goliathus cacicus and Goliathus regius), ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN10d
World’s largest insect faces extinction due to humans’ chocolate demand
The chocolate industry's insatiable demand for cocoa is pushing the Goliath beetle to the brink of extinction.
Smithsonian Magazine11d
Meet the Scientist Studying ‘Fossil Snapshots’ of Ancient Insect Life
Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...
Phoenix New Times6y
The Hasbrouck Insect Collection
The collection began under Drs ... Diplura and Lepidoptera orders and found in the Southwest and Mexico. Each insect is then categorized by family, genus, and, of course, species, and is available ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation28d
NT insect collection opens doors to citizen scientists to share knowledge, deepen ties around biosecurity
As the Northern Territory's principal entomologist, Brian Thistleton is the custodian of an important collection — a database of 56,000 insects notated, archived, and preserved in a climate ...