Tennessee's best new tool against an invasive insect species is also man's best friend — or two best friends, to be exact. The Tennessee Department of Agriculture recently added trained detection dogs ...

Researchers at the University of California Riverside found that bed bugs avoid water because it can block their breathing.

The crop protection industry needs a reboot, according to Tony Klemm. As CEO of Enko, a crop-protection startup, he says the company is taking a different approach to solving one of agriculture’s ...

The common noctule is a bat that's nothing short of extraordinary. Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research and University of Potsdam researchers recently found that these bats are great at ...

Winter doesn’t have to mean a lifeless garden or a silent backyard. Even when frost creeps in and most plants retreat, some hardy heroes keep buzzing with activity, quietly supporting pollinators and ...

Scientists have isolated a molecule with disease-fighting potential in a microbe living on a type of fungus-farming ant (genus Cyphomyrmex). The microbe kills off other hostile microbes attacking the ...

Catherine Norton receives funding from government funding, research council grants and industry. With thanks to Sarah Mae Crosse, Aoife Finlay and Sarah Dooley, undergraduate students at the ...

Experts hope that the love of edible insects in Democratic Republic of Congo may hold the key to tackling widespread hunger among its roughly 65 million people by scaling up a millennia-old ...