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Despite the dangers of these chemicals, they are still used extensively in treating pet fleas and ticks. Study makes ...

The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ...

You can have a beautiful, productive garden while working with nature to manage insect pests. As you incorporate various ...

InsectNet -- which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists -- provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species at ...

Although they won't damage your home, with such an alarming moniker, you probably won't be surprised that stink bugs really ...