Led by Kyoto University, one part of this project is exploring everything from encouraging other insects to eat crop-damaging pests, to zapping pests using laser lights. One way to move away from ...

And many people enjoy the fact that very eye-catching insect species sometimes target particular plants – such as elephant hawk-moth caterpillars, which love to eat fuchsia. "I have definitely ...

Even a small area can serve as a respite for pollinators, and these Oregon experts are ready to help you get started.

Like many of their kin, these insects are parasitoids, a trophic status halfway between being parasites and predators. Instead of killing and then eating their ... at least some crop left to ...

But perhaps the most interesting are the carnivorous plants — sundews ... down and absorb the food we eat, Ellison explained. The nutrients from the digested insects are then absorbed by the ...

Crops like wheat that are grown in mild climates are the most vulnerable, since rising temperatures there would give insects a lot of leeway to eat and reproduce more without having to contend ...

Plants and the insects that feast on them have waged war for hundreds of millions of years. Insect pests cost billions of dollars in the form of crop losses and insecticides, and farmers face an ...