It's unusual for a college student to discover even one new species. Rachel Smith discovered eighteen. All of them were beetles. That means that the stupendous, ever-growing list of beetle species ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have identified a small, parasitic wasp from Taiwan that could help suppress Southern California’s growing polyphagous shot hole borer infestation ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, a listener on “team wasp” writes in with some interesting info on USDA wasps for pesticide-free pest control and we learn about some wasp versus beetle drama.

Rhode Island scientists released a wasp species meant to attack an invasive beetle species known as the emerald ash borer. According to Burrillville Land Trust President Paul Roselli,the beetle ...

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

Jul. 16—It's summer. That means, to paraphrase Donovan in a way he wouldn't appreciate, it must be the Season of the Wasp. But before I go further, I'm adding a content warning, at the request of Keri ...

Up close, the emerald ash borer is a strikingly beautiful insect. It's also a dangerous pest. The metallic green beetles entered the United States from northeast Asia in the 1990s, likely hitching a ...

In an attempt to try and halt the continual spread of the emerald ash borer beetle, which has been responsible for the deaths of scores of ash trees, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

A defenseless insect can gain protection from predators if it evolves to resemble a well-defended species. This evolved similarity is called mimicry, and most familiar are examples of edible ...

The wasps are stingless and tiny, some no bigger than a pencil tip. Over the past six years, the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has quietly released tens of thousands of the ...

KA’U (HawaiiNewsNow) - Tiny wasps the size of dust particles could be the answer to saving Hawaii Coffee farms. And now UH researchers plan to set a swarm free on Hawaii Island. Tens of thousands of ...

The most action-packed summer blockbuster in Colorado isn’t playing out on the silver screen, but around a rosebud’s roots: predatory wasp versus invasive Japanese beetle. The unwelcome beetle — a six ...