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Keep Bugs Out of Your Kitchen With These Common Houseplants
CNET· 2 hours agoNothing bugs me more than finding fruit flies in my wine, beetles in my flour or ants in a bowl of...
Advice | Want to avoid an ‘insect apocalypse’? Be a lazy gardener.
Washington Post· 6 hours agoBees and insects crisscross my yard searching for a sip of nectar, ferrying pollen between the golden poppies and California lilacs and bumbling across flower petals. Of the ...
Illinois residents encouraged to destroy the eggs of invasive insects to slow spread
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoWhile Chicagoans were alarmed to learn the spotted lanternfly had been found in Illinois last year,...
Billions of cicadas are about to emerge from underground in a rare double-brood convergence
WCSH 6 Portland· 2 hours agoFrom late April through June 2024, the largest brood of 13-year cicadas, known as Brood XIX, will...
USDA ARS Online Magazine
Agricultural Research Magazine· 2 hours agoDuring the past 100 years, scientific approaches to insect pest control have run a gamut from the naively simple to the technologically complex. Within 4...
Why are the gnats so bad right now? How to get rid of those annoying pests in Phoenix
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThroughout metro Phoenix, people are enjoying time outside before summer's heat sends us back...
Would you like a cicada salad? Insectarium offers insect-based items at its ‘Bug Appetit’ cafe
WBTV Charlotte· 18 hours agoBlocks away from such French Quarter fine-dining stalwarts as Antoine’s and Brennan’s, the Audubon...
Why don’t female crickets chirp?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIf you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why don’t female crickets chirp? – Avery, age 8, Los...
Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants, 87 years of data show
Phys.org· 22 hours ago"With this research, we show that there are also fewer and fewer plants dependent on those insects...
High-speed imaging and AI help us understand how insect wings work
Ars Technica· 20 hours 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 ...