The BriefMinnesota's Department of Agriculture is releasing wasps in areas with known emerald ash borer infestations, hoping to slow the spread of the deadly pest.Minnesota has about a billion ash ...

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that when azuki bean beetles infected with Wolbachia bacteria are exposed to a ...

They also consume leafhoppers, thrips, scale insects, mites, mealy bugs, and the eggs of destructive beetles and caterpillars. Want more gardening tips? Sign up for our free gardening newsletter for ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

For whatever reason, my office has seen an explosion of homeowners bringing in branches covered in cottony maple scale. I ...

This is well-documented in scale insects (including ground pearls in turf), whose waxy armor presents an obstacle to spray insecticides. Pyrethroid sprays can thereby increase scale insect abundance.

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Magnolia scale insects’ waxy coating protects them when they are directly sprayed with insecticides, which would also kill their natural insect enemies.

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, according to a new study published Thursday in BMC Biology. Researchers ...

The Brahminy blind snake is a small, non-poisonous snake from Southeast Asia that reproduces asexually. It mainly feeds on ant larvae, insect eggs, and earthworms. These snakes live underground ...

As night falls over Australia’s forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life.