The most numerous animals on Earth are insects, exceeding one million species distributed in the most diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Currently, 20% of the known insect species are butterflies, and about 40% – beetles. Approximately 1000 species of macrolepidoptera and 2550 species of beetles are known in the Republic of Moldova, the number of which is increasing every year due to research conducted by entomologists. Unfortunately, in the last 30-40 years we have witnessed an alarming decline in insects. Their diversity and number decrease by 2.5% annually, and the most affected ...

The employees of the Institute of Zoology donate financial means equivalent to the salary for 1 working day in support of refugees from Ukraine. ...

The Board of Directors of the Research Institutes, on behalf of all employees of the public law organizations in the field of research and innovation they lead, expresses its full solidarity with the heroic struggle of the Ukrainian people for the right to decide sovereignly their destiny and achieve their European vocation. The cause of the Ukrainian people is right and legitimate, as sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of the state are being threatened. Ukraine is subject to an external military aggression that is not part of the logic of human civilization in the 21st ...