The sterile fruit flies will be released weekly to combat Mediterranean fruit fly infestations. The flies threaten over 250 types of produce.

Thousands of small bugs called zooplankton were growing in ... “Before we had dams and levees all over California, water would flood across the landscape,” Montgomery said.

Carnivorous plants feed on insects and use a variety of sneaky and sometimes gruesome ways to lure, trap and devour their prey.

Fear not when running over a small flightless bug on the road when it's the diabolical ironclad beetle, which emerges ... the University of California, Irvine and other institutions said.