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Idaho Fish and Game is looking for volunteers to survey milkweed patches and count monarch butterflies across the state this ...
We wait. An hour passes before the silence is broken by the whirr of wingbeats—beetles careening toward the glow in the forest—and, Zambrana hopes, entrapment in his cloth. In the end ...
"Better autograph that right now. That could be a valuable piece of art some day!"So said an onlooker when youngsters were creating maggot art at the recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. The ...
Monarch Butterflies Need Milkweed to Survive Milkweed is the one and only host plant for monarch caterpillars and ...
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How can I protect the plants, especially given how tall they get? A: It sounds like you have asparagus beetles, a common and aptly-named insect pest for this crop. Adults overwinter in and ...
Learn more› By Wirecutter Staff In this edition of Clean Everything, we dish on how our experts keep bugs out of their homes. Plus: our new favorite mosquito repellent. Nothing ruins an idyllic ...
Learn more› By Jen Gushue Some people fear heights. Some fear public speaking. I fear bugs — to the degree that I once engaged in a 20-minute stare-down with an already dead cockroach in my ...
Stink bugs do not bite people or pets, but when disturbed they produce a pungent, acrid odor. Adult stink bugs enter homes in the fall seeking shelter, and emit that foul smell if crushed.
The Buckeye Lady Beetle Blitz is seeking volunteers with gardens to collect lady beetles for a two-week survey in June and August. A training workshop for the Buckeye Lady Beetle Blitz will be held ...
Bed bugs were the first human pest, suggests a new study. They have been bugging people since they hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal around 60,000 years ago, say scientists.
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