Okay, so the giant wood moth isn’t exactly of kaiju proportions, but in insect terms, it’s still pretty hefty; some female members of this species have a wingspan of around 23 centimeters (9 inches) ...

Growing a boxwood plant? You should be aware of the early signs of box tree moths taking up residence in your yard so you can ...

Explores various types of insect homes and their life cycles. It discusses how insects like moths, webworms, spittle bugs, gall wasps, beetles, ants, cicadas, ant lions, caddis fly larvae, wasps, and ...

Thrips are tiny insects – their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage ...

The adult is highly migratory. In Zimbabwe the pest is usually a problem from December to April. Its life cycle includes the egg, caterpillar, pupa and moth stages with a single female moth capable of ...

4. Hoverflies, like other flies, have a single pair of wings, whereas most other flying insects have two pairs. They also ...

The use of a strip-till cultivator has halved the number of maize establishment passes and more than doubled work rate at a ...

Insects use silk to protect metamorphosing pupae (e.g. moth caterpillars), to make skin-shedding easier (e.g. butterfly ...

Three years ago Dr. Williams extracted an oil from the abdomens of silkworm moths, injected it into silkworm pupae. It stopped their normal development. The pupae never became adult moths ...

Neglected or well-tended, gardens can provide valuable habitats for our pollinators and there is a lot we can do to help reverse insect decline ...

GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — It’s that time of year again when winged visitors from around the globe take over West Michigan. For the 30th year, ‘Butterflies Are Blooming’ at the Frederik ...

Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a destructive pest native to tropical and subtropical regions ...