NANNING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- In a simple brick house in Dacai Township, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the floor was blanketed with a thick layer of fresh green mulberry leaves. On ...

We depend on insects in many ways for producing food for the world’s population. They pollinate our crop plants, break down decaying plant and animal matter, and are natural pest controllers. We also ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized insect from the Australian Jurassic period, estimated to be around 151 ...

It's called leaf litter, but the multi-colored fall foliage covering your lawn is anything but trash. It’s habitat for pollinators and other beneficial insects, many of which rely on leaves for ...

Q: My milkweed has orange bugs on its seed pods. Are they harmful? No, they’re not going to damage the plant enough to warrant intervention. These are native insects, and they are part of the ...

Editor’s note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Franklin County will answer gardening and home landscape questions submitted ...

If you happen to live in the South Bay and see government aircraft circling overhead, watch out, because chances are, they’re about to dump hundreds of thousands of irradiated fruit flies directly ...

Here’s a new detail of how a real-life Cordyceps fungus zombifies still-living animals: Crashing their “blood sugar.” That’s a recently discovered bit of science related to the zombie-apocalypse video ...

WARNING: Some readers may find the details of this story disturbing. MANITOWOC (WLUK) -- Elizabeth Rahmlow pleaded not guilty Thursday for allegedly abandoning a dog, which was found dead locked in ...

Nearly 100 million years ago, a droplet of tree resin captured a gruesome scene: a fungus bursting out of the body of an ant pupa. This amber fossil suggests that the fungus famous for its ability to ...

Tropical dry forests are critically endangered ecosystems that once covered vast areas of the planet but have been largely destroyed, with less than 8% of the original extent remaining in some regions ...