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Up until recently, nobody could really say for sure whether the gazillions of American shad annually running up the Columbia River were having any impact on salmon and steelhead, either ...

An explainer catalogs garden species that supply nectar and shelter for predator insects, underscoring relevance to low-input pest management. It details how beneficial insects use umbels and disk ...

Nature harbours a chilling arsenal of predators that don’t just kill their prey — they dissolve it. These eight grisly ...

Recent analysis assessing the impact of invasive species on several insect orders found they reduce the abundance of insects ...

On a nighttime field survey in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a researcher spotted something on the underside of a leaf that looked exactly like a fungus consuming a spider. It had the pale, elongated growths ...

Long before birds ruled the skies, the dragonfly evolved a hunting strategy so effective that it still outperforms most ...

It all began innocently enough. A friend photographed a small hive-like substance in our local nature preserve. The spongy mass was weird-looking and about the size of a marshmallow. He figured it ...

Most spiders are both predators and prey, playing an essential role in the food web (pun intended). In fact, many spiders act as a natural form of pest control, consuming small insects like mosquitoes ...

A bizarre rainforest insect is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about camouflage. A katydid spotted glowing hot pink in Panama stunned researchers when it slowly transformed into green in ...

Early- and mid-season insects in cotton crops are one of many threats growers face that can significantly impact lint yield and fiber quality. Applying integrated pest management (IPM) principles ...