DINDIGUL: Sirumalai Banana farmers decry frequent attack of pests, insects and unseasonal rainfall for their losses in ...

The Ynsect factory, which was due to produce 200,000 tonnes of Tenebrio molitor (yellow meal worm) meal a year, mainly for human consumption, decided to refocus on pet food in 2023. Despite that, the ...

For Professor Michal Segoli of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, these tiny creatures are a lifelong fascination and the focus of her groundbreaking work. A nature enthusiast since childhood, Segoli ...

The swelling may last 7 days. Insect bites of the upper face can cause severe swelling around the eye. This is harmless. The swelling is usually worse in the morning after lying down all night. It ...

They joined an expedition to Ball’s Pyramid, a tall sea stack about 14 miles from Lord Howe Island, where a few climbers had reported stumbling on suspicious insect remains. Hidden haven of Lord Howe ...

The BEVS platform is based on the natural propensity of baculoviruses to infect insect cells. More than 600 baculoviruses have been isolated in nature. Their host-specificity is usually restricted to ...

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 ...

A green darner dragonfly. Image by photoworks via Depositphotos Have you ever wondered which species is the fastest-flying insect in the world? You might be surprised to find out that it’s a specific ...

Doctors and dermatologists pay special attention to a few elements of an insect bite when trying to decipher the cause, she explains, such as bite "patterns and where on the body they were bitten." ...

This brood parasite survives in an ant colony by eating dead insects and ant larvae. The team found that most of the behaviors can be classified two ways–distancing and dodging. In distancing ...

to name a few. They're harmless, so many of us grow up playing with roly-polies, picking them up, and inspecting them up close. While they look like millipedes, roly-polies (Armadillidiidae sp.) are ...