Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that ...

The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76,000 bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather events and temperatures will ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists discovered a rare insect in a lettuce shipment at the ...

A rare pest never before recorded in the United States has been discovered near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday.

which are dreaded insect pests of rice plants. Conventional methods of pest control such as insecticides do not work at these altitudes. By restricting the spread of high-flying planthoppers ...

The insects were discovered during a routine inspection, Customs officials said. According to the agency's database, the pest has only twice before been intercepted in the United States, in Dallas in ...

The researchers focused on the rare males of Ramulus mikado, a stick insect species in Japan, where parthenogenesis is predominant. Their analysis of male reproductive behavior reveals new findings.

MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an ...

A dangerous new hornet is posing a significant threat to the honeybee population in Georgia, which can mean big trouble for ...

and his determinations of critical specimens provided clients with the information needed to develop ways to control pests, or to understand the importance of scale insects in particular ecosystems.