Storing fruits and vegetables in the fridge instead of on the counter will also make it harder for the fruit flies to find ...

Environmentalists say monarch populations are shrinking due to climate change, agricultural expansion and herbicides that ...

Weeds also provide shelter and serve as a food source for insects and diseases that overwinter or provide habitat for ...

These fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are not just any insects—they are genetically similar to humans, with about 60% ...

Migrants not only need to travel in the correct direction, but also have incredible endurance: American hoverflies migrate ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to list monarch butterflie as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Have you noticed small limbs scattered on the ground beneath your pecans, hickories, persimmons, or elms? Do they look like ...

For years, their meat went on to feed hungry Californians via California Emergency Foodlink, a southeastern Sacramento nonprofit group. California Emergency Foodlink had relied on Washington- based ...

AgriLife Research is working on a new research project to combat the zebra chip disease, which has impacted potato production for decades.

If a new proposal is adopted, the insects would become the most commonly seen species to be the subject of federal protection ...

Aging gracefully comes naturally to these creatures, which can live for hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of years ...

Preserving and expanding blue carbon ecosystems have been hailed as a climate-friendly nature-based solution to store carbon. However, this can cause co-accumulation of neurotoxic mercury ...