(CNN) -- Flying insects are contaminating new environments by eating microplastics in polluted waters and carrying them through the air, a new study has found. UK researchers found that microplastics ...

New evidence suggests there is some truth to anecdotes about today’s car windscreens being covered in fewer dead insects than in the past. A UK citizen science survey has found the number of flying ...

A UK-wide decline in bug splats recorded on car number plates indicates an "alarming" fall in the number of flying insects, UK scientists said in a survey published Wednesday. The 2024 Bugs Matter ...

When people think of bugs they generally think of gross pests that need to be kept at a distance. The farther away, the better. But insects, especially flying ones, have a strange, gross beauty to ...

Turn on a light outside at night, and it won't be long before a bevy of insects start careening wildly around it, apparently drawn in "like a moth to a flame," as the saying goes. Now, in a series of ...

A UK-wide decline in bug splats recorded on car number plates indicates an "alarming" fall in the number of flying insects, UK scientists said in a survey published Wednesday.