If pests are ruining your squash plants before your veggies have had time to develop, try this easy preventative method using ...

Rodent feces by clean plates, a cockroach by a wok, cooks who touched customer food after scratching their head or touching a ...

During the survey, the team documented around 60 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera); 30 species of dragonflies ...

With such a possibility in mind, it may be time to consider turning part of the backyard garden into a chicken coop. This is a common pastime, as chickens are raised in 13% of American households.

In the middle of the 20th century, researchers studying insects along the southern coast of India collected a never-before-seen species of moth. The year was 1951, and after describing the animal in a ...

Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in early testing. Frogs have thrived for hundreds of millions of years, adapting ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

Pro-environmental behavior increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research.

A new model predicts how extreme weather events can reduce the value of forests, crops, and nature-based activities.

He published his answer in a 2018 research paper. His calculations showed there are approximately 5.5 million insect species, with the correct number almost certainly between 2.6 and 7.2 million. The ...

Residents of the Tuscan beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of ...

In some regions of the world, wild-caught insects have been a valuable source of protein for centuries. However, the mass ...