Entomologist Justin Schmidt recorded his own experience of venomous stings, to rate and describe the pain caused by the venom of insects. Explore part of Schmidt’s pain index below. Schmidt’s pain ...

2). Adult female covers are called tests (Fig. 3), and can be up to 2 mm wide with a central pale ring. The test is not attached to the body and can be peeled back to reveal the soft-bodied scale ...

White, wooly adults (figure 1, 2) with pink to purple eggs underneath (Figure 3) can be seen in late spring. The first generation was observed in late May through early June using a hand lens or ...

With increasing public awareness of the negative effects of insecticides on public health, beneficial organisms and the environment, and the growing demand for sustainable and environmentally-friendly ...

Because they're so tiny and hard to detect, scale insects are best banished from your trees by introducing their natural predators, maintaining your trees, and using horticultural oils.

As with other insects, these spiders will only bite if they're feeling threatened. A spider bite in the UK is likely to cause discomfort in varying degrees, depending on the species. It may look like ...

Scientists have long warned that insect ... Aug. 28, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a virus that caused a nationwide die-off of superworms, a common food for birds, reptiles, other pets and ...

“Insects on the whole are now declining. And it’s very worrisome.” Understanding the scale of this decline is a bit more complicated. Many groups of insects, like flies, haven’t been ...

Edible insects are often portrayed as something of a sustainable superfood - an environmentally friendly alternative to livestock. But who is already eating them and do they actually taste any good?

Some viruses even use multiple hosts to spread their infections—such as arboviruses that use insects to move their infections to mammalian hosts like humans. Understanding how they move through ...

Cochineal bugs are part of the Coccidae family, a type of scale insect closely related to aphids, mealybugs, and whiteflies. They have flat, oval-shaped bodies about the size of a grain of rice ...