Nevada Department of Agriculture announces retirement of State Entomologist Jeff Knight after 40 years of service.

TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and ...

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

Insects and lab-made animal protein have the potential to be far less damaging to the environment. And because pets tend to ...

Preserving strips of native vegetation beside avocado orchards gives insects a buffet of wild pollen when blossoms are scarce ...

USDA releases billions of sterile flies from planes to fight deadly flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock.

Here’s one reason to shut down the border. To combat the flesh-eating larvae (maggots) of the New World Screwworm (NWS) that’s wreaking havoc among livestock along […] ...

The future of smashed avocado might depend on patches of native vegetation preserved alongside farmland, as new Curtin ...

Master gardener Sally Scalera shares the dirt on which fragrant plants are native, important because they attract and support our native insects.

Despite the plan sounding like something out of a horror movie, it is part of the government's bid to protect the US from a ...