The invasive species, also known as the starry sky beetle for its appearance, destroys maples and other trees that shed their leaves each fall.

Gardeners have used catnip as an insect repellant for many years, but does it keep all bugs away? Find out if it is effective against the Asian lady beetle.

Emerald ash borer was recently found in Milbank, now one of 13 communities in South Dakota where the pest has been detected.

Step 2: Reduce populations Olds explains with either fly species, using non-insecticidal control methods are essential for slowing insecticide resistance. For horn flies, pasture burning in spring ...

When temperatures heat up, nocturnal Bogong moths fly about 1,000 kilometres to cool down in caves by the Australian Alps.

He said the beetles fly and also travel on firewood or yard trimmings being sent to green waste sites. Jones said the species can be difficult to detect because they are so small.

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(Dreyer et al., Nature, 2025) "Dung beetles don't care where they end up with their dung ball, they roll their ball in a random direction away from competitors on the dung heap," Adden explained.

In a world-first discovery, researchers have shown that Australia's iconic Bogong moth uses constellations of stars and the Milky Way to navigate hundreds of kilometers across the country during ...

The Mediterranean oak borer (Xyleborus monographus), an invasive insect, was detected in Novato, Calif., on May 23, 2025. The ambrosia beetle species is approximately one-eighth of an inch and bores ...

However, two beetle species from the Mediterranean region are an exception, as an international research team has discovered. Insect eyes are generally sensitive to ultraviolet, blue and green light.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Animation is developing I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story based on the popular children’s book by Mark Pett, with Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort producing under their first ...