They began simply, smooth and round, but over 300 million years, insect eggs have become as varied as the places where insects reign. Some eggs resemble dirt. Others resemble plants. When you find ...

Bird populations here and elsewhere have been halved during our lifetimes, with a 40% decline in the last decade alone.

Mayflies don't bite and adults only live for a day, but you don't want to get stuck in a swarm. Here's what to know about the ...

Get ready for an insect phenomenon that has been 17 years in the making. Starting this spring, when temperatures are warm ...

Humans determine if an insect is beneficial ... the adult moth or butterfly will be able to lay her eggs on the appropriate plants for the eggs to hatch and the larvae to feed.

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme carries out Research and Development activities ... competitiveness of male mosquitoes from wild strains and a genetic sexing strain, and (5) the volumetric ...

Insect body parts have names a lot like ours — the head, thorax (chest), and abdomen. But insects are also very different from us in many ways, including: They have a hard outer skeleton, instead of ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...