Wasps do a little bit of pollinating, but they serve other purposes in your garden, eating pests like aphids, beetles, and ...

Since starting the collection in 1998, Richard has collected about 80,000 insect specimens, many of which are unique to ...

Have you ever heard of zoophobia? That is the medical term given for the general fear of animals, from the roots “zoo,” meaning animal, and “phobia,” meaning dread or fear. Around six percent of all ...

Releasing 10,000 of microscopic wasps into a home may not sound like the most obvious way to tackle a moth infestation, but ...

Your son's fear of insects is not unusual. It is called entomophobia which means an irrational and uncontrollable fear (phobia) of insects, usually a specific insect or group of insects (wasps and ...

Nicholas Green does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

As warm spring breezes pull us out of our winter blur in many parts of the country, we’re soaking in the sound of peep-peeps ...

According to the Daily Star, the UK has witnessed its earliest-ever sighting of the Asian hornet, a giant insect that can ...

This early encounter plants the idea that insects are harmful,” says Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan, ecologist and senior fellow at the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the ...

Richard was always interested in insects, but it took until his second ... Richard's collection was unaffected, but the tragedy confirmed his fear that the tens of thousands of specimens could ...