One hundred million years ago, as iguanodons and triceratops fled from hungry tyrannosaurs, another biological drama played out on the ground where the giant reptiles trod: Male beetles using their ...

Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf green and transparent flecked with gold. They’re ...

This is one beetle invasion Brooklyn can live without. That’s why lawmakers last week announced $33 million to battle the Asian long-horned beetle, an invasive insect threatening nearly half of the ...

Butterflies, bees, and even bats are celebrated as pollinators: creatures that travel from flower to flower to feed, and in the process, help fertilize the plants by spreading pollen. But some of ...

Many of the once-green pine trees along roadways in Suffolk County have turned yellow and orange, evidence that they are dying. They're victims of the southern pine beetle, an invasive insect no ...

To stop the Southern pine beetle from ravaging Long Island’s pine barrens, the state DEC will explore ways of helping the strongest trees survive an assault by the ravenous insects, officials with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Small, elongated insects with appendages that look like pincers are earwigs. Earwigs are not the only variety of black bug with ...

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Here’s how to manage these voracious invasive pests.