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Global meta-analysis reveals overall higher nocturnal than diurnal activity in insect communities.
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- Pollination Across the Diel Cycle: A Global Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2025Pooled it
- Global meta-analysis reveals overall higher nocturnal than diurnal activity in insect communities.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
- Citizen science reveals temporally structured insect attraction and mitigation efficacy under artificial light at night.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Automated monitoring of insects system: building a non-lethal and scalable solution for monitoring of nocturnal insects.HardwareX · 2026Article
- Genomic signature of repeated transitions to diurnality in spiders.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Effects of Light on Faecal Case-bearing Larvae of the Leaf Beetle Chlamisus laticollis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae) Accumulating Phototoxic Chlorophyll Catabolites.Journal of chemical ecology · 2026Article
- Like night and day: a review of nocturnal predator communities and predation in annual row crop agroecosystems.Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2026Review
- Contrasting phenological shifts in diurnal and nocturnal Lepidoptera under climate change.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Environmental drivers of bat activity at high latitudes.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Mitigating light pollution impacts on arthropods based on light-emitting diode properties.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
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- Characterizing a species-rich and understudied tropical insect fauna using DNA barcoding.GigaScience · 2026Article
- Simultaneous Automated Insect Monitoring Across a Remote Tropical Elevation Gradient With Mothbox.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
- Exploring nocturnal soundscapes in an Australian open forest system using acoustic indices.PloS one · 2026Article
- Resource limitation during larval growth leads to higher flight propensity in adult beetles.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Automated insect detection and biomass monitoring via AI and electrical field sensor technology.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Live fast, die young? Day- and night-warming affect the growth, survivorship, and behavior of caterpillars in the field.Ecology · 2025Article
- Acoustic monitoring for tropical insect conservation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity.Biology letters · 2025Article
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Abstract
Insects sustain key ecosystem functions, but how their activity varies across the day-night cycle and the underlying drivers are poorly understood. Although entomologists generally expect that more insects are active at night, this notion has not been tested with empirical data at the global scale. Here, we assemble 331 quantitative comparisons of the abundances of insects between day and night periods from 78 studies worldwide and use multi-level meta-analytical models to show that insect activity is on average 31.4% (CI: -6.3%-84.3%) higher at night than in the day. We reveal diel preferences of major insect taxa, and observe higher nocturnal activity in aquatic taxa than in terrestrial ones, as well as in warmer environments. In a separate analysis of the small subset of studies quantifying diel patterns in taxonomic richness (31 comparisons from 13 studies), we detect preliminary evidence of higher nocturnal richness in tropical than temperate communities. The higher overall (but variable) nocturnal activity in insect communities underscores the need to address threats such as light pollution and climate warming that may disproportionately impact nocturnal insects.
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