Several ornamental plants commonly claimed to be mosquito-repellent don't actually keep mosquitoes away under real-world ...

Researchers are exploring how to turn weeds into feed for farmed insects, creating protein for food and livestock feed while producing natural fertilizer. A new review suggests a circular agriculture ...

Learn how creating pollinator habitats helps support conservation efforts. Syngenta partners with Monarch Joint Venture to support efforts to protect and enhance pollinator habitat across North ...

A tractor-mounted vacuum successfully removed many crop-damaging insects in field tests, offering farmers a promising, ...

A new high-throughput respiration-measuring system lets scientists monitor up to 240 insects and other invertebrates at once, making it far easier to study insects' resting metabolic rates and how ...

Several ornamental plants commonly claimed to be mosquito-repellent don’t actually keep mosquitoes away under real-world conditions, a new study shows. Researchers say people should rely on proven ...

Troglocladius hajdi, a blind non-biting midge that lives underground. Photo by Martina Pavlek. Deep below the Velebit mountains of Southern Croatia, 1,431 meters under ground, lies the Lukina Jama ...

Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) is an invasive shrub that can blanket forest floors, as shown above near Lyme, Connecticut, in April 2010. The ground cover creates a humid microclimate ...

The boom in backyard beekeeping in recent years has been great news for at least one group of fellow hymenopterans: yellowjackets. Honey bees are high on the menu of insects on which yellowjackets ...

An Aedes aegypti mosquito with an abnormally large blood meal (left) next to typical engorged mosquito (right) for comparison. (Photo by Perran Ross, Ph.D. By Perran Ross, Ph.D. Perran Ross, Ph.D. An ...