Meet the black soldier fly larvae, a tiny waste-eating bug that creates a fantastic organic fertilizer that can improve soil ...

Its larval food plant is honeysuckle. The larvae feed in June and July on the leaves and flowers of the honeysuckle and then pupate on the ground below. The adults emerge at the end of August and ...

Sometimes, nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine ...

The endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly is positively influenced by hurricanes, as new growth from damaged plants ...

Butterflies and moths look alike and are in the same family, Lepidoptera. Their life cycles start with eggs that hatch to ...

Scientists have for the first time demonstrated play-like behavior in flies. They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly visited a carousel.

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

these products can be a useful transition food toward a more whole-food, plant-based diet.” “While they can be beneficial in the short term, whole, minimally processed plant foods remain the ...

Over the last few years it’s become the food trend to follow, but is a plant-based diet an effective weight-loss plan? For many people, ‘plant-based’ is not so much a diet as a lifestyle ...