(Beyond Pesticides, December 12, 2019) A breakthrough study in biological pest management has found a species of wasp can, when combined with other non-toxic methods, readily replace toxic pesticide ...

Last week, we focused on the on-farm threats posed by New World Screwworm and the small wounds that can serve as entry points for the fly. But the effort to ...

Non-biting midges are the tiny flies that swarm together as thick masses around lakes and streams, annoying passers-by in warm weather. But early in a midge's life, it lives in the water. Now, ...

Stable flies tormented Thomas Jefferson while he wrote the Declaration of Independence, history tells us. These bloodsucking pests are the scourge of beachgoers in Florida and recreational boaters in ...

Using other insects to control pests like greenfly has been a massive success story for farming, reducing the use of chemical ...

July is the perfect month for cherry picking, as farmers prep their produce and families handpick the biggest, ripest cherries they can find in U-Pick farms across the state. But there is one tiny ...

Forget chasing pesky flies around with an amateur swatter. Keep unwanted buzzers away with the best fly traps around. The ...

University of California Riverside researchers are launching a preemptive strike against the threatened return of the flesh-eating New World screwworm, a threat to livestock.

The makers of such insecticides as Raid and Off are taking a swat at what they consider a new nuisance in the neighborhood: nontoxic, botanical pesticides that are ratcheting up competition in the war ...