The homesteaders at Mason Dixon Acres protect kale and cabbage crops using insect netting to prevent pest damage and improve harvest quality. This is a fish that gets eaten alive and keeps swimming ...

Can Silicon Valley solve California's mosquito problem? Google is seeking federal approval to unleash millions of ...

Under normal circumstances, a mosquito lives for just a few weeks, and in that time, its wings will carry it a few miles or ...

Barn swallows are known for their aerial agility and remarkable nest-building skills. The birds construct cup-shaped nests using wet mud pellets mixed with grass fibres, feathers and plant material.

Astronomers have spotted clouds of vaporized sand on an exoplanet. And, weather radar data reveal insects in U.S. skies—100 ...

The lowly blowfly is known for feasting on feces and corpses. One intrepid researcher hopes to use them as a biological ...

In the face of a warming climate that is having a profound effect on global biodiversity and will change the distribution and abundance of many animals, a research team has developed a statistical ...

Inside an MIT lab, a robot smaller and lighter than a paperclip recently hovered in midair for nearly 17 uninterrupted minutes — long enough that the graduate student running the experiment later ...

Health authorities said six Asian tiger mosquitoes were found during routine surveillance near the Bamaga community, about 750 kilometres north-west of Cairns. The mosquito can spread quickly and has ...

A correlative workflow combining cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-electron tomography with secondary ion mass spectrometry generates spatially registered chemical maps from the same vitrified sample, ...