The SRHD recommends wearing light-colored clothing and long pants and sleeves to help avoid gnat bites by covering skin and keeping cool, as the heat absorption of darker colors tends to attract more ...

S cientists have developed a first-of-its-kind, fully synthetic food source that may revolutionize efforts to save honeybees.

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How do you keep natural enemies — the beneficial insects and other arthropods that prey on crop-damaging pests — in the ...

The goal of the breeding program is to return the insect to its natural environment on Lord Howe Island after rats were eradicated there in 2019. The Hearst Foundations has awarded Washington State ...

Alec Quinn is a current Museum Studies Graduate Student at George Washington University with an Undergraduate degree in Paleontology from Appalachian State University. She currently volunteers in ...

“An oak is the best tree to choose because it is the No. 1 plant for supporting the food web, ” says University of Delaware ...

Cow parsnips, a native wildflower (not to be confused with the non-native and invasive hogweed), can stand as tall as 8 feet ...

According to one app for nature observers, it's the most commonly seen creature in California: the western fence lizard. Why? The answer reflects how humans have invaded its space and how it has ...

Brood XIV is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that emerge every 13 or 17 years. This year they'll be in states such as ...

Insects will start to arrive in New Jersey as the weather gets warmer, with a unique species making its way to the Garden State this year. Brood XIV, a special type of buzzing cicada, is expected ...

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a drone hovering above Guy Wicks Field at the University of Idaho in Moscow. Just minutes ...