Insects are everywhere, crawling across sidewalks, hanging out in our gardens, and even invading our homes. Despite inhabiting nearly every corner of the planet, many of the most common insect species ...

Homegrown blog reader Cyndi Lee asked about a large trail that looked like sawdust falling from her tree. On closer inspection, she saw that the dust was actually tiny pale-yellow worms. Laura Jesse, ...

Pollinating insects are important for agriculture and ecological flourishing, but they are difficult to monitor, as identification is tricky, labor-intensive, and typically requires killing some ...

UD’s Insect Research Collection provides Solomon Hendrix the tools to turn a passion for identifying insects into a future in entomological discovery At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Solomon ...

AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the weather warms up, few of us can resist a nice evening walk through the park, or a trip to the countryside to immerse ...

Pollinating insects are important for agriculture and ecological flourishing, but they are difficult to monitor, as ...

Angela Mech, assistant professor of Entomology at University of Maine, has been leading the research for the i-Tree pest predictor. Mech specializes in invasive forest insects. University of Maine ...

Everyone’s immune system causes different reactions to bug bites, but certain insects leave signature marks or reactions behind that can help identify what made you into a snack. Comparing bug bite ...

Many research articles that I have found, as well as your recent post about tracking insects using radio frequency identification (see How Can I Track Insects Via RFID?), focus on identifying bugs at ...