For the first time, a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, has demonstrated that insects can mimic floral scents to ...

A team of ecologists and entomologists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil, working with a colleague from Mexico, has observed the first instance of galls providing protection against fire ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames. By Gennaro Tomma Living things have long needed to find ways to survive ...

The alfalfa weevil is one of Indiana's earliest spring crop pests. Purdue Extension entomologists encourage alfalfa growers to scout their fields for the insect and treat with insecticides where ...

Area research institutions are revving up their studies in an effort to find a way to stop a bug that has been destroying Canary Island date palm trees in La Jolla and elsewhere in San Diego County in ...

Farms for Orphans targets malnutrition in DRC's orphans Palm weevil larvae meals provide protein NGO wants to ramp up commercial production of the larvae Farms for Orphans produces 300kg of larvae a ...

The European oil beetle's parasitic larvae emit a floral scent that attracts wild bees. This allows the larvae to sneak into ...