The sterile fly technique, first used by the U.S. in the 1960s and now in Panama, prevents female screwworms from reproducing by mating them with sterilized males. The United States is hoping to stop ...

Credit: Pixabay. Tucked away in the shaded corner of a community garden in New Haven, Connecticut, a beehive awaits. Seven ...

A team of engineers and pest control specialists in China has developed a machine that is capable of gender-sorting 16 million mosquito pupae a week. In their paper published in the journal ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

Cobalt-60, a radioactive material, was used to sterilize screwworm pupae during the 1950s, when U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists were testing the sterile insect technique to eradicate New ...

While it's scientifically proven to kill and prevent fleas, it's recommended to treat both your pet and your home, using a ...

Vergelegen Wine Estate in South Africa is pairing technology and nature, using drones to drop predatory wasps that control pests without the use of insecticides.

They specifically found that the worm, which is the pupae of an Alphitobius darkling beetle, possesses enzymes that can break down polystyrene — best known as the key ingredient in styrofoam.