Amid the usual parade of creeping horrors—super lice, mayfly plagues and a “troll-haired insect discovered in remote Suriname”—the exterminator news site PestWeb recently shared a piece of ...

A giant of the insect world is disappearing at an alarming ... these beetles are running out of places to feed, breed, and survive. Another major threat to these beetles comes from humans ...

Farmers raise and breed insects, also known as "mini-livestock," to be an alternative protein source for animals and be a more sustainable practice in agriculture. Insect frass may also be used as ...

The giant tropical ant is a good model for the adaptation of a social insect to its environment. These studies, conducted in Costa Rica, have dealt with division of labor and recruitment Breed , M. D.

Government advisers say they need innovations that would help to control the disease, both the parasite and the vector ...

For many years, scientists had had difficulties studying migration in insects because of their size and experts’ inability to track their movement thanks to technological limitations. But a boom in ...

Warm temperatures, humidity, and standing water create the perfect environment for mosquitoes to breed, especially in the spring. And with more rain on the way, we need to be ready for them!

“Fruit flies also may breed and develop in drains ... What it looks like: As perhaps the main insect that really strikes fear in most homeowners, termites can wreak significant havoc in a ...

The insect breed in moist soils and the continued rainfall makes it favourable for the insects to continue breeding and spreading. Farmers need to be ready as this will cause huge destruction ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...