Living in the blissfully quiet countryside brings many blessings, but the abundance of flying insects is not one of them. That is why I am hoping the bestselling Zevo Flying Insect Trap from Amazon is ...

AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...

Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both the combined weight (what scientists call biomass) and diversity of ...

Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights in the dark, as the saying goes, "like moths to a flame." Now, scientists have figured out why insects are so keen on light, but it's not because ...

A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

What is the life of a cricket worth? Insect farming is a rapidly growing industry, with hundreds of companies worldwide rearing insects at industrial scales. The global value of insect farming is ...

I didn't grow up on a farm, but I lived on a farm as an adult child, I would say. When I came back from college, my father was farming by that time. I really know the difficulties of farming and how ...

Will we be eating insects in the future? New Scientist’s Alex Wilkins recently took a look inside Ÿnsect’s huge vertical insect farm in France to see what the future of food might look like and taste ...

InsectNet -- which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists -- provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species at ...