A quick and easy guide to seven of the most common—and most destructive—insect pests on your household plants, plus how to get rid of them. A whitefly infestation is a damaging and stubborn situation.

He identified 1,500-8,000 specimens per year, and to questions that did not involve scale insects, his answer was: ‘I’ll think about it’ Douglas Williams, the entomologist, who has died aged ...

New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), head of the Soft and Micro Robotics Laboratory within the Research Laboratory ...

Fortunately, the name on this one is exactly what it is. It’s a scale insect that attaches to the bark of a crapemyrtle. If you have a crapemyrtle in your landscape, now would be a good time to ...

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the ...

Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect for artificial pollination to underpin an entirely indoor farm ...

Inspired by the movement of insects gliding on the surface of water, University of Waterloo researchers have designed tiny robots controlled by light, offering promising possibilities for ...

I observed a trail of tiny ants in my kitchen. Like us, they seek warmth and shelter during this bitterly cold weather.

To help make this idea a reality, MIT researchers are developing robotic insects that could someday swarm out of mechanical hives to rapidly ... Chen, an associate professor in the Department of ...