For several years, carpet beetles have been in the top 5 on our playlist. Immature carpet beetles feed on natural fibers such as wool, silk, or furs. The adults may be brought into the home on cut ...

A bright blue, six-eyed springtail found on Tsushima Island in Japan turned out to be a new species. According to researchers, the springtail is about 0.06 to 0.07 inches long and carries six eyes in ...

Have you ever turned on your bathroom light only to be greeted by an unwelcome guest? Well, you are not alone. Nearly three million people in the United States live with pests on a daily basis. And ...

Are you seeing black bugs in your home or around your property? Do you need help identifying a pest so you can rid your dwelling of a nuisance? There are thousands of black bugs just in the United ...

Springtails are the largest group of noninsect hexapods renowned for their unique and enigmatic appendices for jumping (furcula) and adhesion (collophore). However, it has been erroneously assumed ...

Insects have declined by 75% in the past 50 years – and the consequences may soon be catastrophic. Biologist Dave Goulson reveals the vital services they perform I have been fascinated by insects all ...

Sustainable agriculture relies on practices and technologies that combine effectiveness with a minimal environmental footprint. RNA interference (RNAi), a eukaryotic process in which transcript ...

Tidying the garden often uncovers an interesting selection of beetles that live in lawn edges, compost heaps or lurk under logs, as they're well adapted to pushing through root thatch and getting into ...

This Guidance describes how to perform hazard identification for endocrine-disrupting properties by following the scientific criteria which are outlined in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) ...

How climate change and biological invasions interact to affect biodiversity is of major concern to conservation. Quantitative evidence for the nature of climate change–invasion interactions is, ...