Aphids are a common sap-feeding insect pest found in the garden. Large clusters of aphids can raise understandable concern ...

From your backyard to nearby streams, a hidden world of venomous insects is far more dangerous than most people realize.

If you garden, you have likely encountered aphids on trees, shrubs or other garden plants in your landscape. Identifiable by ...

Parasitoid insects, unlike parasites, kill their hosts by consuming them during their larval stage. Most parasitoids are small wasps and flies, and they infect a wide range of insects and arachnids.

Many insects are naturally infected with symbiotic bacteria, which are typically transmitted vertically from mother to offspring but are not transmitted horizontally. Understanding the effects of ...

The predatory mirid bug, Nesidiocoris tenuis, which preys on agricultural pests, is used as a biological control agent. This discovery has significant implications for biological control which ...

"Developed from a symposium held during the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Indianapolis, IN, in 1993." Predatory Heteroptera: an important yet neglected group of natural ...

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Tool use is widely reported across a broad range of the animal kingdom, mainly among vertebrates. Now, however, Chinese researchers have identified a remarkable example of tool use in the insect world ...

A light poke is sometimes enough to make an insect collapse into complete stillness. Legs fold in, movement stops, and, for a ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — The Florida Predatory Stink Bug has made its way to Lynchburg, and some residents are noticing the insects eating invasive Spotted Lanternfly nymphs. Eric Day, an Entomologist ...