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Flying insects are key to biodiversity and food systems, but they’re more vulnerable as they’re forced to migrate to cooler ecosystems at higher elevations, new research led by scientists at CU Denver shows.

Whiteflies - Africa's main cassava pest causes damage to crops. Maurice/FlickrThe dreaded crop-eating fall armyworm continues to spread across Africa like wildfire. This invasive insect pest, first reported in Africa in early 2016, is in more than 20 African countries including South Sudan and South Africa. It has destroyed many staple crops like maize. Damage to maize alone by this pest could total USD billion in the next 12 months. Crop losses in African countries due to insect pests are ...

You can’t think about Halloween without thinking about bats. Those creepy, blood-sucking rats with wings give us the heebie-jeebies and we don’t care who knows it. Well don’t let Jennifer Newmark, Wildlife Diversity Division chief for the Nevada Department of Wildlife hear you say that.

We’re making life tough for insects – and not just by swatting them away with a newspaper.

The officers were responding to a call about a suspected carjacking

The discovery of nine oriental fruit flies in one Northern California city has the state and local authorities in eradication mode.

A "deadly" breed of hornets is swarming into Georgia -- sending officials scrambling to kill the growing population.

In the spring of 2023, the Bafus family learned that their sons, Mason and Jack, were both diagnosed with a rare genetic disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

A 59-year-old man identified by family members as Mike Alford was stung to death by bees nesting inside a bag of potting soil he was moving from his porch in Kentucky.

The public have been warned to stay as far away from the nests as possible and immediately alert the authorities if they find one.