Tips and tricks from two pest experts on how to stop a silverfish infestation in your home, as well as ways to keep one from ...

Flipping on a light and finding an invasion of silverfish in your bathroom or kitchen can be startling. With their silvery-metallic scales and fishlike movements scurrying along the walls and floor, ...

The insect world is filled with creatures that seem to defy our earthly expectations. With approximately 900,000 known insect species—and potentially millions more yet to be discovered—Earth’s ...

A finger-sized fossil has shed new light on the diversity of ancient arthropods. More than 500 million years ago, many major animal groups first appeared on Earth in a burst of evolution known as the ...

Not only are cicadas returning to the Volunteer State this year but Tennessee is expected to have one of the largest concentrations of the nuisance bugs anywhere in the U.S., according to USA TODAY.

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“This is the earliest direct evidence of insect pollination of angiosperms,” the study noted, referring to the breed of plants that produce flowers and pollen. Angiosperms originated roughly 250 ...

Pesticides are much more dangerous than any insect on the planet, even mosquitos. Let’s learn what insects rank high on the danger scale in the US. 1. Mosquito (Anopheles freeborni and quadrimaculatus ...

While the insect is anesthetized with CO2, an ultra-thin silver wire is inserted into each cerci – taillike sensory appendages (picture the tail end of an earwig or cricket) – as well as into each ...

Now, over 130 years later, Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji has discovered that this structure enables the plant to self-pollinate when insects fail to transfer pollen from another plant.

He noticed that if no insects visited the orchid to pollinate it, the flower started wilting. As it drooped, the finger-like appendage gradually moved towards the stigma, bringing pollen into ...

Those bugs are probably earwigs—an earwig is a long black insect with what looks like pincers. An earwig’s “pincers” are located at the back of its body, so a black bug with pincers on its ...