And it isn’t the French. It is millions, and millions, of flying red-eyed bugs, all hatching at once to form a mega-plague. Fun! They are cicadas. Inch-long insects that look a lot like ...

This insect transmits Chagas disease by biting humans, typically around the face, and then defecating near the wound. The parasite in their feces enters the bloodstream and can cause serious heart ...

"It's quite plausible that we might end up with plagues of small numbers of pest insects, but we will lose all the wonderful ones that we want, like bees and hoverflies and butterflies and dung ...

A recent biography of Pasteur (shown to the right) outlines his contributions to understanding and preventing insect disease. His efforts from 1865 to 1870 led to the discovery that the disease ...

Global insect decline may see 'plague of pests' Mosquitoes 'put off biting' by diet drugs Edible insects: A BBC reporter's verdict A study in 2017 suggested that flying insects had declined by ...

This data bolsters studies related to properly identifying and classifying insect species and developing ... impact of evolution on neurodegenerative disease. The mitochondria help organisms ...

A rare leafhopper insect plague in Argentina has knocked an estimated $1.3 billion off the expected 2023/24 corn crop, the director of economic studies at the Rosario grains exchange said on ...