Bearing fruit ranging in color from red, orange and yellow to purple, white and chocolate-black, sweet peppers are the Easter eggs of the vegetable garden, said University of Missouri Extension ...

In Japan, the number of bedbugs, a kind of insect, is growing. Bedbugs bite people and drink their blood. Their bites make ...

In the home garden, aphids may be held in check by a number of natural predators, including lady beetles, minute pirate bugs, ...

Cicadas have been around for weeks in Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio. So, their time is nearly up, right? Here's when they ...

The USDA has made its recommendation clear: If you see a lanternfly—kill it. Whether it’s an egg mass that looks like a ...

Kennedy Airport opened a shipment addressed to Lapkiewicz to find 245 small cylinders containing the egg sacs of orchid mantises ... an environmental engineer and insect enthusiast from Belgium ...

They're surprisingly fuzzy. Each wing looks like a mini-masterpiece of stained-glass art, in orange, black, and white.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Marshall, Nicasio, Lagunitas, Woodacre, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls, ...

When Laurel Williams thinks of soursop, she thinks of ice cream. Not just any ice cream, but the one made from the soursop ...

A: The damage is actually caused by the larvae of a sawfly insect. They are commonly called rose slugs. The sawfly adult ...

Getting ahead on their dining allows these ravenous critters more wiggle room to find food sources in difficult conditions.

Black flies are a small, flying insect that bite animals including humans ... and adult female black flies can deposit from 150 to 500 eggs in flowing water. Similar to mosquitoes, repellents ...