Tennessee is home to over a thousand insects, but a few are quite sizable. Discover the biggest insects that live in the ...

Native plants are more than just part of the scenery. They’re the backbone of functioning ecosystems — especially for native birds and insects. When these plants disappear, so do the species that ...

Experts recommend keeping an eye out for egg clusters and scraping them into buckets of soapy water. Officials issue warning ...

The white-marked tussock moth caterpillar, common in eastern North America, has spiky hairs that can cause skin irritation ...

Most insecticides will also kill the helpers, so follow directions and use in moderation. As warming temperatures arrive, ...

Charles LaCalle, a resident of Santa Fe’s South Capitol neighborhood, labored hard hoping to rescue the fir tree in his front yard from an aggressive outbreak of the Douglas-fir tussock moth ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Age is just a number, or is it? A new study by UTEP researchers shows that adult moths are more vulnerable to attack than ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

In a collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, Evan Puschak made a video about 16th-century Dutch artist (and all-around p ...

When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant ...

Many of the UK’s bird species are in serious decline, largely due to habitat destruction and the collapse of food chains ...