MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an ...

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Introduction: Precise identification of crop insects is a crucial aspect of intelligent plant protection. Recently, with the development of deep learning methods, the efficiency of insect recognition ...

Flies might not come to mind when you think of threatened species in need of protection, but pollinator flies are actually at ...

Summer brings warmer temperatures and longer days, and of course that means spending more time outdoors. Unfortunately, it ...

No matter how careful you are about animals in your home, or how much care you take when you are outdoors, animal and insect bites and stings are sometimes unavoidable. Fleas, mites, and chiggers ...

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Honey bee and bumble bee nests are not usually a problem and should be preserved when possible. Social wasps are a group of related insects belonging primarily to the family Vespidae (sometimes called ...

The skin bumps are the body's reaction to the insect's saliva. While the bug is sucking blood, some of its secretions get mixed in. Anaphylaxis With Insect Bites: Very Rare A severe life-threatening ...

With a rich and well understood natural history and a long tradition of being used to address fundamental issues in development, neuroscience, behaviour, ecology and evolution, social insects are ...