Entomology News

The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a study published today in the scientific journal Global Change Biology .

Researchers at Northern Arizona University think they may have found an environmentally safe and readily available weapon against the tree-eating armies of bark beetles.

In November and December, Don and Kathleen Hasenohrl of Pittsville took a cruise out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

That point of view has been supported by Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Director General Samir Brahmachari and Department of Biotechnology Secretary M.K. Bhan, among others.

A process developed by a UC Riverside researcher to keep mosquitoes and other insects at bay might be turned into a commercial product, university officials said today.

Science recently published a study titled " Flight Orientation Behaviors Promote Optimal Migration Trajectories in High-Flying Insects ". It's about how migrating insects have evolved to take advantage very efficiently of high speed winds to travel hundreds of miles in relatively short periods of time, all that while correcting for crosswinds ...

Monsanto Co., Dow Chemical Co. and BASF SE said pesticide sales in Argentina are booming as farmers fight to save a record soy crop from insect and fungi attacks.

THE pest control company from Hampshire that uses insectsa sex drive as a weapon against them has won A 2.25m investment to create new products and expand overseas.

Rugged, hilly landscapes with a range of different habitat types can help maintain more stable butterfly populations and thus aid their conservation, according to new findings published today in the journal Ecology Letters .

Home Depot will add 10 new products from EcoSmart Technologies in the lawn and garden category.

Recommended by nine out of ten aunts. The day when restaurants will serve garlic grasshoppers or beetle larva skewers is getting closer in Costa Rica, where scientists are "growing" insects for human consumption.

Yissum, Makhteshim Agan to cooperator on environmentally-friendly crop protection technologies Feb.

After losing as many as a third of their bees in the past two years, Marin County's beekeepers are taking radical steps - including breeding a better bee - to save their remaining hives from destruction.

The 84th Annual Soils and Crops Conference in Barton County begins at 8 a.m. on Feb.

Bees can learn to recognize human faces, or at least face-like patterns, a new study suggests.

Hussein El-Hajj Hassan's hand was cut off from his body - likely with an axe - at or around the time he was killed, a forensic anthropologist testified at Fadi Saleh's is first-degree murder trial Friday.

The migrant moth Autographa gamma , one of the species of migratory insects that have evolved sophisticated flight behaviors to optimize their migratory routes Ian Woiwod / Science The migrant moth Autographa gamma , one of the species of migratory insects that have evolved sophisticated flight behaviors to optimize their migratory routes Every ...

RENO, Nev. - State agriculture officials are gearing up for an invasion of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets in northern Nevada.

Dryadula phaetusa or Banded orange. The twelfth edition of Butterflies Go Free at Montreal Botanical Garden takes place on February 19 through April 26 and includes butterflies and moths from North, Central and South America.

The mailbox is full of gardening magazines and seed catalogues. More people are reading them as new people plan to have their first ever garden to supplement an unsure paycheck.