Tennessee is a beautiful, pastoral state full of sweeping grasslands, thick forests, and lush rivers. It’s also home to a ...

They blend into their surroundings to avoid being hunted down, communicate, temperature control, and even mating displays.

Every home baker has a favourite recipe for muffins, cookies and brownies. Yet the cakes produced by Nahla Mahmoud are all ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Profit margins are already razor-thin for many Midwest farmers this year, prompting increased diligence in scouting and early detection of crop threats. With careful planning and proactive crop protec ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

This year’s Marin County Fair theme is Bug-Tastic! — a theme made for Marin Master Gardeners. We are all about fostering good ...

The ancient Romans and Greeks dined on insects. Pliny, the first-century Roman scholar and author of Historia Naturalis, wrote that Roman aristocrats loved to eat beetle larvae reared on flour and ...

Due in no small part to the fact that, on just about every issue and policy, Trump seems to be flip-flopping more often than a click beetle on crack. Trump’s bases are loaded (to use a baseball ...

This new genus name combines Latin words spatha (meaning sword) and spina (meaning spine), inspired by the beetle’s prominent spine. The beetle was found in the Umran area of Ri Bhoi district in ...