Termite queens form an essential part of the colony by sustaining them. They lay over 30,000 eggs a day, and without them, ...

Insects are everywhere, crawling across sidewalks, hanging out in our gardens, and even invading our homes. Despite ...

(Reuters) -As a boy in the 1960s, David Wagner would run around his family’s Missouri farm with a glass jar clutched in his hand, scooping flickering fireflies out of the sky. “We could fill it up and ...

Soldier beetles hunt for aphids and other small insect pests in marigolds, goldenrod, yarrow, daisies and other flowering plants.(Howard Garrett / Special Contributor) Today, it’s beetle talk. Most ...

Spruce bark beetles hijack their host tree’s chemical defenses, transforming them into potent weapons against fungal threats.

Most people have done it. You see something small and wiggly on a plant, your brain says “bug = bad,” and your hand is ...

This is because the beetle can break down the plant-derived compounds (phenolic glucosides) via a water-mediated process ...

Scientists have discovered that beetles might not actually be bisexual. A study has found that same-sex mating behavior in red flour beetles is more likely to be due to incompetence than sexual ...

Native fungi from forests killed emerald ash borers in lab tests, offering a potential new biological tool to slow the ...