Protect yourself and your family from annoying bug bites with one of the best bug sprays on the market. Whether you're on a run or sitting on your patio, it's important to protect your exposed ...

The 16-ounce jar of peanut butter in your pantry can contain up to 136 insect parts before it is deemed contaminated, according to the FDA’s Food Defect Action Levels guide. This may sound ...

MOSQUITOES have genetically mutated to survive insecticide, scientists have found. Malaria-carrying insects which can resist the long-banned pesticide DDT have been discovered in Tanzania for the ...

From insect larvae that keep munching on pesticide-laden cotton in the U.S. to head lice that won't wash out of children's hair, pests are slowly developing genetic shields that enable them to ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...

They began simply, smooth and round, but over 300 million years, insect eggs have become as varied as the places where insects reign. Some eggs resemble dirt. Others resemble plants. When you find ...

Formed in 2015 to pursue the science known as biomechanics, his company already has two drones to show for an intimate study of bird and insect life. One takes inspiration from a dragonfly ...

One of the main discoveries of a new study is the identification of new variants in genes associated with insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes, the primary vectors of malaria in West ...

The Section assists FAO and IAEA Member States in implementing environmentally-friendly and sustainable methods to control major insect pests of crops and veterinary and human importance. It focuses ...

So far scientists who study bugs, called entomologists, have named one million insect species but studies estimate that four million are still uncategorized. The oldest insect fossil—a mandible ...