Keeping boxelder bugs out is important because, although harmless, they swarm homes in the fall and leave stains indoors.

Finding an earwig in the home can be a startling encounter due to their distinguished pincers. But these common household ...

Bug bombs, also known as total release foggers, roach bombs or insect foggers, release pesticides into a space via an aerosol propellant. Often, these products are thought to be a quick fix to rid a ...

There are nearly 1 million known insect species on Earth, and just 2% of these insects are harmful to plants, animals or humans. Managing insects in the vegetable garden and home landscape requires an ...

Adult boxelders, or Boisea trivittata, have a black oval-shaped body with an orange-red detail, two antennae, six legs and ...

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could ...

A widespread bacteria called Wolbachia and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm, preventing them from fertilizing eggs of females that do not have the ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Shelbi Russell studies to better understand the relationship between this bacteria and its insect hosts, with implications for the control of human ...