Stuart Reynolds

Emeritus Professor of Entomology, University of Bath

Últimos Artículos

Naturaleza y Biodiversidad

Insects populations have been declining for nearly 100 years, study reveals

When did you last see a glow worm? Most likely, quite some time ago. Depending on how young you are, you may have never seen one at all. Those light-emitting insects, Wordsworth’s “earthb...

30 abr 2020

Alimentación y Agua

Why the diversity of insects is crucial for maintaining crop yields

Many species of flower-visiting insect are in trouble in Britain, according to a new report from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) near Oxford, which drew on almost 750,000 obser...

02 abr 2019

Naturaleza y Biodiversidad

This is what would happen to the natural world if all the insects disappeared

There are an awful lot of insects. It’s hard to say exactly how many because 80% haven’t yet been described by taxonomists, but there are probably about 5.5m species. Put that number toge...

20 feb 2019