Learn how to identify bugs in your home with our handy pest checklist and you'll quickly be on your way to banish them for good. Our guide features the 17 most common household pests, details their ...

One common pest homeowners might encounter is the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), a fast and flying insect that can quickly and efficiently infest an area. Are American cockroaches hard to ...

Not all wasps are out to sting you — and the mud dauber certainly isn't. Here's why these scary-looking bugs boast benefits ...

These bugs aren’t just a Latin America thing anymore. Researchers now label parts of the southern US—like Texas—as ...

SAN ANTONIO – U.S. Army Environmental Command’s entomologist, Bill Miller, Ph.D., presented a show-and-tell at St. Luke Catholic School on May 23, 2022, to educate kindergarten students about how to ...

Sign up to receive the Future Tense newsletter every other Saturday. For the first few days, I ignored the teeny bugs crawling around my bathroom window sill at night ...

It's that time of the year again. With warm weather and people going on vacations, an unwelcome visitor is making a skin-crawling appearance: bed bugs. After the 2020 pandemic, entomologists said bed ...

Spotted lanternflies will soon begin laying eggs that hatch in spring. Now is the time to kill their egg masses. Here's how to get rid of them.

Weaver ants are intelligent and often difficult to ward off, but these simple tips and tricks can help you eliminate them and keep them from coming back.

Spotting a cockroach-like bug in your home is seldom a welcome sight, and seeing something sizable that scuttles across your floor is especially freaky. While the bug may look like a cockroach, it ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — If you find a mystery bug on your plant, there’s a way here in Albuquerque to figure out what it is. The Bernalillo County Extension Office offers a bug identification ...

UD’s Insect Research Collection provides Solomon Hendrix the tools to turn a passion for identifying insects into a future in entomological discovery At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Solomon ...