Bag the fruit up to prevent fruit flies from laying eggs on developing fruit. This needs to be done early, ideally once the ...

From peaches and lentils to your favourite herb, ancient Mediterranean doctors had strong opinions about what you should (and ...

A: Yes, it would be highly unlikely for a pair of geese to have this many youngsters. The group you saw was instead a goose ...

The pest has been detected just 700 miles from the U.S. border, leading the USDA to take "urgent action" to protect U.S.

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year, announcing its intent Wednesday to ...

Scientists have observed that under intense environmental pressure, nematode worms assemble into towering collective structures to disperse by hitching rides on passing insects. This phenomenon, ...

In the 2008 film ‘The Happening’, plants turned against humans in an eerie twist of nature, releasing invisible neurotoxins that drove people to their deaths. It was pure sci-fi horror, but the idea ...

Unlike leaves, which have stomata for gas exchange, the skin of some fruits and bark is usually impermeable. That’s where lenticels come in. These tiny openings allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to pass ...