Bugs including hoverflies, lacewings and ladybirds play an important role in keeping Britain's apples healthy, a new study has shown. Wildflower strips planted around apple orchards provide a habitat ...

Integrated pest management methods encourage attracting and hosting beneficial insect predators that keep common pests at bay. Learn how to draw them in and keep them on the farm! While spraying ...

Parasitoid insects, unlike parasites, kill their hosts by consuming them during their larval stage. Most parasitoids are small wasps and flies, and they infect a wide range of insects and arachnids.

Hidden within the tiny world of insects, a macro wildlife camera captured an intense close-up encounter between a red predatory bug and its struggling prey perched on a flower. At first glance the ...

Some of the fiercest beasts of prey in your garden are on your side. They’re predatory insects that protect your plants by controlling the populations of more harmful bugs. “The overwhelming majority ...

The predatory mirid bug, Nesidiocoris tenuis, which preys on agricultural pests, is used as a biological control agent. This discovery has significant implications for biological control which ...

John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...

A Kobe University study shows that small aquatic beetles survive catfish attacks by resisting ingestion inside the catfish's mouth and being spat out alive. This research contributes to a deeper ...

The livestock on Chris Thompson's farm can be counted in the millions if not billions. At a greenhouse near Karaka he and his team rear a fighting force of beneficial bugs to beat back pests, the ...

In a Puerto Rican coffee farm, researchers uncovered a web of chaotic interactions between three ant species and a predator fly, revealing how shifting dominance patterns make pest management ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how insects are masters of mimicry, and how a new study ...