STORY: Global warming has brought Argentina’s corn farmers a dangerous new enemy, leafhoppers. A rare plague of the tiny yellow insects has slashed millions of tons from Argentina’s harvest ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

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Though the 'chironomids' do not bite or suck blood, they may cause asthma or allergic reactions, experts warn Japan's 2025 World Expo in Osaka has been bugged by a string of mishaps since its opening ...

NEW DELHI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Athletes at the Commonwealth Games are battling a plague of Delhi bugs as much as opponents with organisers forced to blanket venues with a pungent insecticide after an ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...