As tomato plants grow and yield small round tomatoes, another unexpected creature may appear: the Tomato Hornworm. Learn how ...

The unusual operation is a critical part of a strategy to combat the spread of the flesh-eating screwworm fly, a pest that poses a serious threat to the beef industry, wildlife, and even household ...

Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

This article addresses a novel optimal fuzzy control scheme for a category of nonlinear Markov jump singularly perturbed systems with mixed zero-sum (MZS) game. First, a Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy structure ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

Newcomers like Hartford and Peoria shake up this year's list as travel season threatens to spread infestations ATLANTA, June ...

Every gardener will inevitably have to get rid of aphids at some point or another. These common pests don't discriminate when ...

The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

Part of that is due to Utah’s population growth. Another factor is the increased prevalence of urban pests throughout the state. He pointed to bed bugs in Park City as an example.

Anyone really selfish enough to want butterflies and baby birds without tolerating caterpillars?