Making crickets an even more sustainable dinner option
Researchers demonstrated that a diet based on an agricultural byproduct and one based on a weed were just as good as one using chicken feed for raising crickets.
Controversial pesticides threaten not just bees, but butterflies, too
Most of the furor surrounding neonicotinoids, the world’s most widely-used pesticides, focuses on the harms they cause to bees.
Insect outbreaks help forests survive wildfires
When it comes to forest management, conventional knowledge holds that insect outbreaks increase the risk of and damage from wildfires.
City bees don’t get their buzz from junk food
Shooing bees away from a can of soda or a cup of fruit punch is a frustration familiar to just about anyone who has picnicked in a city park.
A hydropeak tweak could make dams less damaging
Scientists know that hydropower dams often decrease the abundance and diversity of aquatic insects downstream.
How to sustainably stop Argentine ants on the march
In 2012, California-based pest control companies unleashed more than 50,000 kilograms of pesticides in urban areas, all of which was targeted at just a single species: the Argentine ant, Lin
Meet your creepy-crawly roommates
The average US home contains almost 100 distinct kinds of arthropods, a diverse group of animals that includes insects, spiders, and centipedes.
Yellow crazy ants could threaten butterflies
Yellow crazy ants can form huge colonies, force out native ants, and kill other animals such as crabs.
A warming Arctic: more mosquitoes, fewer caribou?
Global warming will boost the survival rate of mosquitoes in the Arctic, researchers have found. As a result, caribou may suffer more bloodsucking bites.
Wildflowers help control crop pests
Could cornflowers and poppies take the place of pesticides? That’s what researchers are proposing in a new study on wheat fields.
