In recent decades, advances in lighting technology have precipitated exponential increases
in night sky brightness worldwide, raising concerns in the scientific community about the …

Existing assessments of the ecosystem service of pollination have been largely restricted to
diurnal insects, with a particular focus on generalist foragers such as wild and honey bees …

Health of honey bees is threatened by a variety of stressors, including pesticides and
parasites. Here, we investigated effects of acetamiprid, Varroa destructor, and Nosema …

Bees provide an essential pollination service for crops and wild plants. However, substantial
declines in bee populations and diversity have been observed in Europe and North America …

With their highly sensitive visual systems, nocturnal insects have evolved a remarkable
capacity to discriminate colors, orient themselves using faint celestial cues, fly unimpeded …

The ability to see colour at night is known only from a handful of animals. First discovered in
the elephant hawk moth Deilephila elpenor, nocturnal colour vision is now known from two …

Insects produce a variety of exquisitely controlled manoeuvres during natural flight
behaviour. Here we show how hawkmoths produce and control one such manoeuvre, an …

Artificial light is globally one of the most widely distributed forms of anthropogenic pollution.
However, while both the nature and ecological effects of direct artificial lighting are …

In response to the pressures of predation, parasitism and competition for limited resources,
several groups of (mainly) tropical bees and wasps have independently evolved a nocturnal …

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are one of the most taxonomically diverse insect orders
with nearly 160,000 described species. They have been studied extensively for centuries …