Montana AG Live begins its 30th season by welcoming two teachers, Todd Breitenfeldt, creator of "Bugs with an Attitude", & Mike Battaiola. Together they worked with their Whitehall High School ...

A revolutionary new biological pest control method that targets the lifespan of female insects could significantly reduce the threat of insect pests such as disease-carrying mosquitoes by offering ...

A genetic biocontrol method which reduces the lifespan of female insects could work as fast as pesticides to reduce populations of disease-spreading mosquitoes and destructive crop pests, according to ...

Researchers at Applied BioSciences at Macquarie University and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology at Macquarie University have developed a biological pest control method that targets ...

Scott Shaw, a University of Wyoming entomology professor, recently contributed to a comprehensive new book on Darwin wasps, ...

Biological control is emerging as a sustainable alternative to chemical pesticides in agricultural ecosystems, with predatory insects playing a central role in suppressing pest populations. This ...

In the toxic male technique, genetically engineered male insects would implant semen containing toxic venom into the female insects during mating. Madugrero/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Insects do a ...

It spreads like wildfire, blanketing entire landscapes in a sea of green that chokes out all other competitors. It is incredibly difficult to kill, constantly springing back to life like the villain ...

Over the next year, a butterfly species may take flight in Hawaii as a form of biocontrol to fight invasive miconia plants, which is known as “the green cancer” of the Pacific and currently plagues ...