These insects may be tiny, but they can cause big damage in your garden. Here's how to identify and control the little bugs ...

There are many different types of skin conditions that can affect a horse at any time in their life. Typically, skin ...

Here's how to identify the insects eating your garden leaves by the evidence they leave behind. If leafcutter bees are damaging your plants, you will find very neat semi-circles cut out of the leaf ...

Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

Monitoring: Regularly inspect quarantined plants for mealybugs and treat them with an insecticide as needed. Recordkeeping: ...

The Cooperative Extension Plant Clinic can provide information on scale insect control, urban tree care, and other horticultural problems.

For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...

Many species feed on flower nectar using their long, straw-like mouthparts, transferring pollen between flowers as they go. In the Snowy Mountains, for instance, scientists found moths carry ...

These gray-brown insects attach themselves to bark and use sucking mouthparts (stylet) to feed on the juices underneath. They secrete a waxy armor called a test and overwinter as fully armored ...

Confirmed kleptoplasts, they have specialized mouthparts that enable them to suck the chloroplasts out of algae and store them in their own digestive cells for months, putting them to work for ...

With summer comes insect bites. Most insect stings result in small, local reactions, and these can be treated by ...