The bad news is this insect looks like a scorpion and it lives right here in BC. The good news is, this bug is very small.

In the past 30 years, the natural environment in Finland has undergone significant changes. Researchers at the University of ...

The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.” “Small Pests, Big Problems: The Global Spread of Bark Beetles.” “Eighty-Nine Million Acres ...

Dutch Elm Disease — we’ve all seen the signs warning about the transport of elm firewood at campgrounds and on roadways ...

Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and ...

Every fall for years, Deborah McCullough and her husband fished salmon from Western Michigan’s Betsie River. “It’s a little river, and it was shaded, and you knew there was going to be big salmon in ...

Q. What are these weird white things on my citrus trees? They don’t seem like they’re moving, but they sure do attract ants!

The pine trees must be cut down when they have been ravaged by pine beetles. Newsday via Getty Images The telltale sign of ...

For chemical pest control, timing of pesticide applications is just as important as positively identifying the problem and selecting the right pesticide. Following are some plant diseases controlled i ...

This work shows that even small insects have sophisticated motor strategies to overcome challenging environments. With stored grain losses due to pests like the red flour beetle estimated at ...

Paul Hetherington from Buglife emphasised the importance of small insects to our ecosystem, remarking: "These tiny creatures are essential to life as we know it. From recycling nutrients to ...

Now, scientists have discovered a new super power: These beetles are even resistant to ... For example, to feed its young, it scavenges small pathogen-laden dead animals like mice, prairie dogs ...