The emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle native to Asia that bores into wood and kills ash trees by eating tissues under ...

The first sprayable insecticide made of RNA can target and kill ravenous Colorado potato beetles while sparing most ...

Make sure the seals around doors and windows are correctly sealed. Never leave open food sources out in the open, as this ...

As a life-long consumer of newspapers, I have read many odd headlines. “Three Mice Make Radiation Ride in Model Man-in-Space Cabin,” from the Oct. 13, 1960 front page of The Marietta Times is a great ...

A mosquito larva fossil thought to be the world's oldest has been found by scientists, who think it could be around 99 ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous fossil comes from the Kachin region in Myanmar and was preserved in excellent ...

Companion plants can be grown in such a way that each plant supports the other. Strawberries, as it happens, are friends with ...

The flowers attract many insect pollinators, especially flies, bees, butterflies, wasps and beetles (nectar and scent draw them in). It is reported as a host plant for certain moth larvae (such as the ...

Protecting plants from insects doesn't necessarily involve the use of chemicals. Nature already provides some effective ways ...

Nationally known gardening expert, TV and radio host, author and columnist Melinda Myers joins WTMJ's Libby Collins to talk about how she began her ...