One way to keep from getting eaten is to run. But recent research shows that sometimes it's better to just hide. One way to keep from getting eaten is to run. But recent research at the University of ...

Researchers from Agriculture and Agri-food Canada are working with nanotechnology and RNA to develop new pest insect control ...

"The small size of an alien insect that feeds on a native tree from the western Pacific island of Guam allows it to hide in cracks and other locations that are out of reach for its only local natural ...

"Nothing too fancy." Gardener shares brilliant hack to keep pests off plants: 'Looking great' first appeared on The Cool Down ...

As global population rises and finite resources dwindle, farmers need new, more sustainable ways to control pests. Now, ecologists have found a safe, sustainable and cost-effective new pest control.

Scientists have mapped the genomes for three kinds of parasitic wasps, providing a new genetic model system based on the Nasonia genus. The availability of these genome sequences will aid the analysis ...

Homeowners use a variety of means to control the plant and insect pests in their landscape: chemicals, mechanical removal, and physical barriers, to name a few. A not so commonplace practice is ...

Species typically evolve over the course of eons, but researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a way to do it in less than a year. A team of scientists led by Mike Smanski, Ph.D., in ...

Buzzing with excitement, the “fly people” swarmed into Chicago this week to hear the latest news about an unsung hero of science: the humble fruit fly. The public may see the insect mainly as a ...

IT IS life’s lottery, blessing some and cursing others in equal number: the chance of a sexually reproducing organism’s offspring inheriting a particular version of a gene from a particular parent is ...