Asian Lady Beetles serve as aphid predators, protecting plants from harmful insects. However, they can also pose problems for ...

Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the ...

Christopher C. Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects, though not in the way most people imagine. As Senior ...

A new mosquito species in Colorado is capable of carrying dengue, yellow fever and Zika, while kissing bugs can now carry parasites that cause Chagas disease.

Cooperative Extension specialist featured in UC Berkeley Breakthroughs magazineIn spring 2005, UC Berkeley undergraduate ...

Some U.S. cotton farmers aren’t excited about 2026. Due to continued low prices, they may rethink how they grow the commodity ...

What are native plants? Either you love them, hate them or don’t really know what they are. If you fall into the latter ...

• Many plants have quiet explosions of white blossoms in cold weather. Coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis) produces white to ...

For a plant, nothing is more critical than the punt taken by its first root. One thread, slim as a hair, must anchor a seed ...

Our Album Award winner discusses navigating the Madonna-whore complex, and how signing to a major label has given her control ...