Five years ago I wrote "In mid-June and with no forewarning my patio was invaded by an army of insects. One weekend I was entertaining friends and toddlers in the backyard and the next weekend I was ...

Large-scale genomic analysis of darkling beetles, a hyper-diverse insect group of more than 30,000 species worldwide, rolls back the curtain on a 150-million-year evolutionary tale of one of Earth's ...

Darkling beetles are back, marching north across Tri-Cities sidewalks and roadways, particularly in places where residential neighborhoods meet undeveloped land in south Kennewick and Richland. Each ...

SINGAPORE – Sixteen new species of darkling beetles have been found here after more than two decades of one researcher’s consistent effort in surveying local forests. Found mostly on decaying trees ...

Question: Attached are photos of this little black bug that hangs out on the ground, close to my raised lettuce garden. I haven’t seen any of them on the lettuce, but they hang out on and near the ...

Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, a Mediterranean darkling beetle, has been documented in Idaho for the first time by University of Idaho entomologist Armando Falcon-Brindis. Opatroides punctulatus ...

There floats an enormous plastic garbage island in the North Pacific that is seven times the size of the Korean Peninsula. The island, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is the result of 13 ...

In research published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management, University of Delaware graduate student Ben Sammarco, UD faculty member Michael Crossley and the University of Georgia’s Nancy ...