A part of the government funding legislation is an act focused on the growing screwworm threat. It is called the Stop the Screwworms with Active Readiness and Mitigation - or SWARM - Act.

North America’s smallest woodpeckers—manage to drill holes into the tough bark of trees? A paper published November 6 in the Journal of Experimental Biology offers some clues: The extreme endeavor is ...

After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.

Woolly bear caterpillars (known as woolly worms) are said to predict the winter weather, but are they accurate?

Ravenous pests are on the march to colder regions as climate change lures crop eaters to new territories, threatening jobs and exacerbating world hunger, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

In the northwestern Philippine town of Bayambang, long known as the onion capital of Pangasinan province, an invasion of the ...