Entomology News

FANCY a lovely, nutritious meal high in unsaturated omega-3 fatty acids, protein, and vitamins? You could have fish or, equally healthy, mealworms.

Texas AgrilLife Extension and Research Services recently hired Barman as an entomologist.

First discovered by a Houston pest exterminator in 2002, the Tawny Crazy Ant is the latest insect invader from South America.

Pesticide makers have taken to framing themselves as stewards of the bees as backlash over their products' links to mass bee deaths grows.

With beekeepers around the world still reporting a high rate of colony collapse, a new study from the University of Leeds comes as an encouraging sign for those worried about the level of bee biodiversity.

It's manufactured from the olive-like fruit and seeds of a tropical evergreen tree native to India.

They estimate that globally 2 billion people world wide are already supplementing their diets with the nutrient-rich bugs which are high in protein.

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Researchers believe new findings about the curious locomotion of fire ants could give engineers lessons for building automated search-and-rescue robots designed to hunt for human victims trapped underground.

Much of the South has been living with fire ants for decades, and most youngsters there know to avoid trampling their giant underground nests unless they are looking for a swarm of painful bites.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization recently issued a report saying eating bugs is not only good for our health but it also helps the environment.

Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating.

Awapuni Kindergarten's newly established sustainable garden was blessed on Friday 17 May, highlighting the journey of the kindergarten's children, teachers and whanau's learning, as well as honouring the historical name of Te Kakano, gifted to the kindergarten many years ago.

The Emerald Ash Borer has been confirmed for the first time in Delaware and Otsego counties by the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service , New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens announced today The EAB was found just south of the village of Unadilla in Delaware County and just north of the village of ... (more)

NSW Department of Primary Industries Entomologist, Peter Gillespie, asked and answered this very question on Central West Mornings - delving into the binomial names and descriptions of insects.

Monsanto Co is hosting a "Bee Summit." Bayer AG is breaking ground on a "Bee Care Center." And Sygenta AG is funding grants for research into the accelerating demise of honeybees in the United States, where the insects pollinate fruits and vegetables that make up roughly a quarter of the American diet.

Bees are basically the most important insect ever . Honeybees make possible roughly a third of everything we eat, and the bugs pollinate about $14 billion worth of crops and seeds in the United States each year.

Experts say a swarm of black flies appears to be the best explanation for why endangered whooping cranes are abandoning their nests at a Wisconsin wildlife refuge.

Invasive species have become a problem on nearly every continent. Native species that may have had millions of years to adapt to their environment are somehow trivially displaced by a species that originated somewhere else.