Besides enduring weeks of the 17-year cicada brood cacophony in 2024, we also dealt with the itch mite invasion that followed, an overabundance of earwigs in late spring and Asian lady beetle hordes ...

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Researchers at Montana State University studied the threat and identified several counties across the Northwest at risk of ...

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Cambridge researchers developed a model to predict desert locust swarms, protecting crops and preventing starvation.

West Virginia University roboticists are working on an alternative path to robot autonomy in Loopy, a "multicellular robot" ...

The most dangerous insect can kill by spreading deadly diseases, and others achieve the same end with toxic venom. Whether they bite, sting or swarm, the deadliest insects have adapted to become ...

Swarms of insects are said to be plaguing residents in a Lincolnshire village. As well as bites, people in North Somercotes, south of Cleethorpes, have complained of a constant buzzing.

Also known as a loveliness of ladybugs, the recent swarm of the red insects intrigued one reader to ask Bee Curious, a community-driven series that answers reader questions about the Sacramento ...

A new tool that predicts the behavior of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and Asia.