They are identifiable by their small teardrop-shaped bodies with cornicles, the two tail pipe-like structures that protrude ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An assassin bug larva feeds on a plant. At this time of the year, plants are really beginning to grow. And nothing is more ...

Every insect carries an invisible cargo of microorganisms. Bacteria, fungi, and other microbes live on the cuticle, in the ...

Insect herbivores destroy a staggering share of the world’s harvests every year, and the chemical arsenal deployed against ...

Aphids are tiny soft-bodied pests that feed on a variety of plants, including vegetables, ornamentals, trees, shrubs, and houseplants. Because they reproduce quickly and have multiple generations per ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

Above: lady beetles are being released into Purdue greenhouses as a biological control agent. Photo by Purdue University. Some insects are pests, but not all insects are bad. Overwhelmingly, the ...

Aphids are a common sap-feeding insect pest found in the garden. Large clusters of aphids can raise understandable concern from gardeners. Aphids are also a favorite food of many predatory insects.

“I have found a sticky residue on the leaves of some of my houseplants and what appears to be little bugs under some of the leaves. What can I do to get rid of this problem?” You most likely are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Department of Forestry is assessing damage done by the spruce aphid insect along the Oregon Coast after an outbreak in ...

Scientists examined the biological variations in pea aphids, insects that reproduce frequently enough to evolve before our eyes, by tracing the prevalence of their protective endosymbiont, ...