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Tarnished plant bugs are far-reaching pests with hundreds of host plants, and they can cause large damage to both edible and ornamental plants. They are particularly problematic to fruit and ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

In natural and agricultural ecosystems, omnivorous insects are omnipresent. Whether they are 'true omnivores' that require both plant and prey resources to complete their life-cycle, 'herbivores ...

These half-inch long, invasive Orsillus maculatus, a spore-spreading seed bug, were found inside undeclared cypress cones at ...

The plants only catch insects by accident, he reasoned, and once a hapless bug stopped struggling, the plant would surely open its leaves and let it go free. Charles Darwin knew better ...

G overnment inspectors documented unsanitary conditions at several Boar's Head deli meat plants, not just the factory that was shut down last year after a deadly outbreak of listeria poisoning, ...

this plant's much happier in some way," she says. But she says it "can sometimes just be really disgusting". "We have gloves for those kinds of meatier bugs to eliminate that feel of squish on ...