Hoverflies can carry pollen over greater distances than bees and pollinate many plants that grow in your garden or yard. Look ...

Honeybees face numerous enemies throughout their relatively short lives. Pesticides, starvation, and parasites are three ...

Silver fish, grasshoppers, mantids and cockroaches are examples of these insects. Their young – called nymphs – look like ...

A new study from Macquarie University reveals that the chemical chlorothalonil, which is used globally to prevent fungal ...

Bumblebees do not make honey: they do not need to, for a colony lasts but one long summer. Only the fattest hibernating ...

England's hottest June on record and the third heatwave of the summer set to peak today with temperatures of 32C, wasp ...

To boost your garden’s ladybug population to control pests naturally, an expert warns against a common mistake.

You know bees are beneficial, but you might not know about another beneficial flying insect. Find out what it is and why you should avoid killing it.

A recently detected pest in the Aussie bush may be microscopic in size, but its impact on native bees and Queensland ...

The study aims to identify patterns of changes in gene activity during insect development that undergo complete metamorphosis from egg to larva, pupa, and adult. The results were published in the ...

Sterile male flies have been released into the wild with the theory that the wild female will mate with the sterile male and ...

As a result, hoverflies gain a measure of protection against predators such as birds (and can also cause terror amongst small children). All this despite the fact that hoverflies have no sting ...