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I bet that headline wasn't on your bingo card this week. Researchers at the University of Osaka have equipped cyborg insects with teeny tiny helmets to steer them around various environments ...
Costa Rican scientists are sounding the alarm as a once-abundant insect species edges toward collapse. Known locally as abejones de mayo, or May beetles, these beetles have long been a sign that ...
If you think eating insects is gross, you may be in the cultural minority. Throughout history, people have relished insects as food. Today, many cultures still do. Ten thousand years ago hunters ...
He added that electronic insect killers and insecticides are effective in getting rid of the tiny creatures. The insects are believed to originate from the Water Plaza in the southern part of the ...
Investigators surveyed 447 scientific papers on plant-insect interactions and conducted field trials of commercially available seed mixes to see which plants pollinators visited the most ...
An effective insect repellent can help you fight off the annoyance of buzzing mosquitoes, prevent itchy bites, and reduce your risk of serious bug-borne illnesses like Lyme disease and West Nile ...
The Monroe News asked David Lowenstein, a consumer horticulture educator with Michigan State University Extension about these insects that are harmless to humans. Lowenstein, an entomologist with ...
(Beyond Pesticides, June 10, 2025) An industry-led campaign to quash lawsuits against chemical manufacturers because of their “failure to warn” about the hazards of their pesticide products has failed ...
The objective of this Act is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters. In order to achieve this objective it is hereby declared that, consistent ...
The Southeast Asian insects masquerade as flowers to attract prey. Photograph by Alex Hyde, Nature Picture Library He discovered that Lapkiewicz had a track record in the U.S. too. Two months ...
Here are the food safety inspection reports from Lehigh and Northampton counties, conducted the week of May 25. Each week, we highlight the inspection reports provided through the Pennsylvania ...
Another cicada invasion is here. The large Brood XIV, which emerges every 17 years, is making for a spectacular natural event as billions of periodical cicadas emerge across parts of the Eastern U ...