Summer is the perfect time to enjoy your garden in full bloom, but pesky insects can sometimes turn your paradise into a ...

Carnivorous plants capture and digest insects to obtain nutrients, adapting to nutrient-poor soils. Their modified leaves, or pitchers, trap prey with slippery walls and hairs, leading to drowning ...

This frightening plant is known not only to eat insects but also small mammals, enabling it to fulfill its nutritional needs and flourish in nutrient-poor soils. The Venus flytrap, also known as ...

This column is written by the Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions that ...

Cancel anytime. There’s a fascination with plants that eat bugs. There’s a fascination with plants that eat bugs. “Normally we don’t see that in our day-to-day life,” says Andrew Gierys ...

Seventeen new species of plant bugs—a group of insects with a strawlike mouth used to feed on plant and animal matter—have ...

Identify common garden insects with these garden bugs' pictures and descriptions and become an expert bug identifier.

A team of Australian researchers has identified a new species of extinct sawfly from an exceptionally well-preserved fossil.

The omnivorous hamster can enjoy a range of edible treats, but not all the food that we humans can eat is appropriate for ...

If you're short on beneficial insects, your garden ecosystem is telling you it needs more diversity. So, plant flowers to call more bug friends in, especially Australian natives and exotics such ...

Our primate ancestors and many other animals may have been indulging in fermented fruits and saps full of ethanol for ...