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

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 ...

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A gardener may find it hard to predict weediness, especially when looking at an immature plant confined to a container at a ...

This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, ecological gardening, on how you ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists (CBPAS) assigned to the Calexico cargo facility intercepted a rare ...

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

This year’s National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW) is Feb. 24-28. Invasive species are plants, animals, and pathogens that are not native to our ecosystem and whose introduction causes econo ...

An expert entomologist warns homeowners against four invasive bug species that are on the rise for summer 2025. Plus, we tell ...

Fallout from the scarab beetles' invasion into urban Honolulu remains unknown, but the damage so far is "pretty bad," ...

The orsillus maculatus, a rare spore spreading seed bug, is known to be invasive to cypress and conifer trees.