AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...
A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to ...
David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...
A stinging insect that had vanished from one European country for roughly half a century is back, and its return is part of a wider pattern that should make all of us pay closer attention to the bugs ...
Insect populations are taking a hit around the globe, and climate change and Big Ag may be to blame. According to a study conducted by University College London (UCL), the combination of rising ...
Bugs aren’t just occasional nuisances, they’re crucial to the environment. Now populations of species worldwide are falling at alarming rates. The extinction of the one-inch-wide Xerces blue butterfly ...