A different kind of mosquito, a jumping spider and new diseases could be coming to Massachusetts due to climate change, an expert warns. Globally, temperatures have been rising, a product of global ...

Exploring anywhere on Earth, look closely and you’ll find insects. Check your backyard and you may see ants, beetles, crickets, wasps, mosquitoes and more. There are more kinds of insects than there ...

Stink bugs get an understandably bad rap, thanks to their smelly defense mechanism. Here's how to identify the harmful ones ...

GRAND FORKS – Now that an autumn influx of small, brown moths is over, a UND biology professor says it might be a more common sight in the future as the region’s weather grows warmer by the year.

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

The multicolored Asian lady beetle is also known as the Halloween lady beetle due to her nasty habit of invading homes in the autumn sometime around All Hallows Eve. (Courtesy Michael Raupp) After a ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Spatial comparisons, such as looking at differences in species numbers or abundance across different habitats or regions. Experiments to investigate the response of insects to different threats, such ...

The stories have become horribly familiar. Houses so overrun by bed bugs that the bloodsucking insects pile an inch deep on the floor. An airport shutting down gates for deep cleaning after the ...

Evidence suggests at least one group of insects, the tiny treehopper, communicates using sound vibrations. Researcher Rex Cocroft has scoured a... Societies of Sound in the Forest Societies of Sound ...

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