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‘Cicada-geddon’ reaches the Midlands as people report the noisy insects to law enforcement
WIS News 10 Columbia· 15 minutes ago“We have had several calls about a noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar,” NCSO posted on Facebook. The Southeast and Midwest are at the beginning of a dual emergence ...
‘Bug splat’ survey shows 78% decline in flying insects in two decades
Press Association News via AOL· 3 hours agoA project asking people to count squashed bugs on their car number plates suggests flying insects...
Illinois residents encouraged to destroy the eggs of invasive insects to slow spread
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoWhile Chicagoans were alarmed to learn the spotted lanternfly had been found in Illinois last year,...
Keep Bugs Out of Your Kitchen With These Common Houseplants
CNET· 12 hours agoNothing bugs me more than finding fruit flies in my wine, beetles in my flour or ants in a bowl of...
Chicago cicada invasion 2024: What to know about these loud, unique insects
ABC 7 Chicago· 7 hours agoThe cicadas are coming! The 2024 double emergence of Brood XII and XIX will bring billions of...
Cicada broods soon to emerge. Can we expect them in New York?
Gannett via AOL· 8 hours agoCover patio furniture, pools and hot tubs, especially those underneath trees. Prune trees and...
Timing is everything when controlling invasive paper wasps
The Wenatchee World· 7 hours agoVespid wasps don’t often make it onto anyone’s list of favorite insects. With long legs dangling in...
Advice | Your yard can help avert the insect apocalypse. Here’s how.
Washington Post· 16 hours agoOf the world’s 20,000 or so bee species, a whopping 70 percent dwell in the ground, while many of the rest shelter in hollow stems or dead trees. Unlike other wildlife holding on in distant ...
Cyborg Cockroaches Programmed to Move in Formation
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoIn an experiment out of The Terminator, scientists released a hoard of 20 cyborg cockroaches into a sandy artificial desert. Each live insect wore a tiny...
High-speed imaging and AI help us understand how insect wings work
Ars Technica· 1 day agoAbout 350 million years ago, our planet witnessed the evolution of the first flying creatures. There are many aspects of insect biology, especially their flight, that remain ...