With Organic Fields Next Door, Conventional Farms Dial up the Pesticide Use, Study Finds
[ad_1] Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study
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9-year-old ‘bug expert’ discovers and captures super-rare pink grasshopper
[ad_1] A little bit of luck jumped out at a young “bug expert.” A 9-year-old Arkansas girl and an aspiring
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Students lobby to dethrone Connecticut’s state insect, the voraciously predatory praying mantis
[ad_1] HARTFORD, Conn. — When it comes to state insects, most states honor beloved and benign bugs, like butterflies, honey
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Delta passenger ‘was freaking out’ when maggots fell on her during flight
[ad_1] A passenger on a maggot-infested Delta flight recounted the moment he set his eyes on a woman who was
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Delta passengers showered with maggots after they fell from plane’s overhead compartment
[ad_1] They might have even preferred snakes. A Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit was filled with some unwanted stowaways
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Air pollution is changing the way flowers smell, leaving pollinators lost and the ecosystem in peril
[ad_1] Get a whiff of this. Airborne chemicals found in common fossil fuels are interfering with the pollination process, new
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Long-held belief that bugs are attracted to light disproved in new study
[ad_1] Drawn like a month to a flame — or not? A new study has seemingly made the idiom obsolete,
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Are Insects Drawn to Light? New Research Shows It’s Confusion, Not Fatal Attraction
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were
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Man blows up his apartment trying to kill cockroach with insecticide
[ad_1] A Japanese man trying to kill a single cockroach inadvertently turned into a firebug when he blew up his
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Hundreds of daddy longlegs cover camper’s tent in skin-crawling video
[ad_1] This would surely make anyone’s skin crawl. Hundreds of daddy longlegs blanketed the outside of a backpacker’s tent in
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