Residents in Centre County are experiencing something that only occurs every 17 years. Residents can see Periodical cicadas, ...

"There is a lot of anticipation about the periodical cicadas in Massachusetts," said Simisky. Dubbed "Brood XIV, " or "Brood ...

I got an email from a reader. My reader was pleading, ‘HELP!’ Squash bug or Anasa tritis had invaded her garden. She had planted pumpkins, acorn, spaghetti, and butternut squash. There was no hint of ...

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First, among the hundreds of thousands of species of the Coleoptera (beetles) and Hemiptera (true bugs) insect orders are many predatory creatures which dine on their plant-eating relatives.

Part of the order Hemiptera, these unique and sometimes misunderstood insects are part of a large group known as “true bugs.” While you may refer to things crawling around your house as a bug ...

Here's more about cicadas vs. locusts. According to AZ Animals, "Cicadas are a type of Hemiptera or 'True Bug.' Some think they are related to crickets, but really they are not. Though they are ...

A froghopper. Froghoppers get their names because of their ability to jump quite high. Sycanus species, a true bug, feeding off a moth with the "needle". A cicada named Comb scraper (Dundubia ...

Other insects have a variety of wing structures and shapes rather than the half wing for which the Hemiptera order gets its name. Other than that, true bugs are very similar to insects. They have ...