On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a Steller’s jay in a spruce tree. Cindy Murray has been a Master ...

Wood ducks thrive on a flexible diet of acorns, plants, and insects, helping them recover across North America.

Nate O’Meara is the Executive Director of the Arboretum at Flagstaff (www.thearb.org) and has worked as an ethnobotanist and ...

In research published in Insect Conservation and Diversity, investigators analyzed records from social media to explore which arthropods—including insects and spiders—are most preyed upon by domestic ...

Cicadas from a 17-year cicada brood and shells shed by cicada nymphs sit at the base of a tree on May 29, 2024, in Park Ridge, Ill. Cicadas are of the order Hemiptera — the type of winged insects ...

This critter that’s present in North Texas waters is something you can’t always see, but you may feel. Have you ever heard of a Texas toe biter? This roach-looking insect has a sharp beak that brings ...

Periodical cicadas, Brood XIV, will emerge in Massachusetts in the next few weeks. Cicadas, unlike locusts, do not swarm or decimate crops. Both cicadas and locusts are herbivores, but cicadas are ...

When summer arrives, you can expect to see critters that fly, bite, and scuttle making the most of the warm weather. But whether you tolerate these creepy crawlies or you'd be happy to never see one ...

Using a thin and delicate paintbrush and the 30× magnification lens, groups of 30 newly-emerged first-instar nymphs (younger than 24-hour-old) were individually transferred from the orange jasmine to ...

The residual effects of 4 new insecticides (cyazypyr, flupyradifurone, pyrifluquinazon, and sulfoxaflor) and 2 registered insecticides (pymetrozine and a combination of zeta-cypermethrin and ...

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa The Hemiptera comprise the most species-rich order of the hemimetabolous insects. Members of a number of ...