When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to ...

Don’t be too quick to get out the spray because pests like aphids and whiteflies can be food for beneficial insects which are good around your yard.

The best way to prevent moles and voles from harming your landscape is by being able to accurately identify them.

Silverfish are wingless insects that can infest homes. They are harmless but can chew through things like dry goods, ...

"It was like a festival of all different insects because the leafcutter ants had made the hole and then the mosquitos had come in, and then somehow grasshoppers and moths and everybody had come in." ...

Some viruses, known as arboviruses, use insects to spread their infections to other hosts, such as humans and animals.

Viruses are master parasites that have adapted to infect many host species. Some viruses even use multiple hosts to spread ...

Glen Hood, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ...

Dragonflies can live for more than a year, but most of their life is not spent as the adults many are accustomed to seeing.

Fresh, nutritious food is hard to come by in space. Interstellar Lab hopes to solve that with its closed-loop farm full of ...

Scientists who study bifenthrin, the pesticide many N.H. towns have turned to, say it’s highly toxic to insects and it can ...

Flowers like hibiscus use an invisible blueprint established very early in petal formation that dictates the size of their ...