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Researchers have documented for the first time that insects can hear and react to plants’ acoustic distress signals, which ...
Fall armyworm, an invasive insect pest, has attacked maize crops in the districts of Una and Bilaspur of Himachal Pradesh, leaving farmers worried. This insect can cause damage to the maize leaves and ...
Published in the journal eLife, the study reveals that female Egyptian cotton leafworm moths ( Spodoptera littoralis) are ...
You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life ...
Keep windows and door screens closed to keep moths out of your house. Use natural repellents like rosemary, thyme, cedar, ...
"Stink bugs, in particular the brown marmorated stink bug, can be devastating to tree fruit,” says Blaauw. These pests feed ...
If the flying menaces hanging out around your houseplants and seedlings are getting on your last nerve, here’s how you get them to bug off.
Hoverflies can carry pollen over greater distances than bees and pollinate many plants that grow in your garden or yard. Look ...
Red Deerians are seeing a lot of moths in the community this summer. There is an outbreak of forest tent caterpillars every 10 or so years. These caterpillars prefer to feed on aspen and poplar trees.
The Korea Forest Service’s National Institute of Forest Science raised its alert level on Thursday for the pest from ...
Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized flies and drop them from the sky.
The males cannot suck blood but both sexes feed on nectar of various plants. Their life cycle consists of four stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult.