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

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 ...

The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

Experts warn of a potential spotted lanternfly surge this summer, urging vigilance against these invasive pests that damage plants and spread easily through human transportation.

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

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 […] ...

Three “first in nation” pests were intercepted at a Pharr port of entry. U.S. Customs and Border Protection describes pests ...

The southern border was closed to imports of the animals after screwworm, eradicated in the U.S. for decades, had been moving northward in Mexico.

Land use change and the increased agrochemical use associated with agricultural intensification significantly alter farmland ...

CONSIDERABLE attention has been directed lately to agricultural pests of all kinds, and especially to insect pests, in various countries, because the injuries occasioned to crops by their agency ...