Insects, which pollinate plants, including crops, and fill a key role in the food chain, have declined sharply worldwide.

When dealing with termites, we often reach for chemical insecticides. Encouraging natural predators of these destructive ...

Spiders can be scary but even poisonous spiders provide an essential service to humans and the environment by eating bugs.

Sadly, bat populations are declining rapidly in North America. A driving force is a fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome, which has spread among bats throughout the United States. When a bat ...

Screwworms are back and spreading in Texas. The pests were successfully eradicated from the United States in 1966. How? Using the sterile insect technique whereby 20 billion irradiated screwworm flies ...

We all know the story of the hungry caterpillar. In preparation to become a butterfly, caterpillars eat as much as they can. This includes the black swallowtail caterpillar, which chows down on dill ...

Years later, while studying wild black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys in the mountains of south-west China, I watched playful ...

David Haskell brings readers through millions of years of botanical history for his latest book, How Flowers Made Our World ...

Female velvet ants roam exposed ground for hours, seemingly defenseless without wings, yet predators almost universally ...

Scientists are preparing to release genetically modified "NovoFly" insects in Panama to combat the flesh-eating New World screwworm, a parasite threatening livestock across North and Central America.

The return of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite eradicated from the U.S. in the 1960s, has raised fresh concerns about whether it could threaten the nation's food supply. Unlike other ...

Earwigs are seemingly everywhere in the Gem State during the summer. Despite their name and long pincers, they’re not scary — ...