In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a coloring produced by scale insects (it’s the same natural dye used as ...

Researchers in California have created an incredibly small robot that needs no battery or wired power supply to zip through ...

Spotted lanternflies were first detected in the U.S. in 2014 in Pennsylvania, later spreading to Staten Island in 2020, where they caused a full-blown infestation throughout other New York ...

Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break the skin down. Those enzymes turn up in dust mite poop. And let’s just say ...

New pests are emerging as serious threats to vegetable crops, requiring growers to adapt their pest management strategies.

Every year, the fruit flies and mosquitoes return to my kitchen, drawn to the illicit aroma of unlidded pasta sauce and the ...

Activities of ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers and more start increasing in the spring. Here are tips for protecting yourself from ...

These are the best gnat killers you can buy or DIY. Plus an entomologist shares tips to help you prevent gnats in the first ...

The bumblebee-inspired robot isn’t the only robot created by UC Berkeley engineers. Lin’s team also invented “cockroach” robot that can sprint across the floor and can live even after being stepped on ...

Like a bumblebee flitting from flower to flower, a new insect-inspired flying robot created by engineers at the University of ...

The lower Eagle River water is off color. It is not quite muddy but more than milky — depending on what stretch of river you ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...