The discovery confirmed that an invasive pest had infested the tribe's cherished huckleberry fields, and the problem was only ...

Galls are small, tumor-like growths formed on plants that act as incubators for oak gall wasp larvae. Parasitic wasps often lay their own eggs in these galls, which later feed on their victims. North ...

Q: I noticed, when watering my fledgling tomato plant the other day, that its leaves are covered in yellow squiggles. I’m thinking some little buggy thing has attacked it. Is there something to be ...

Ask Orange County gardeners to name the most annoying and destructive pest in their yards today and most will point to the giant whitefly. Since its discovery in San Diego County in 1992, the giant ...

Christopher Adams, an Oregon State University entomologist, talked about the invasive fly spotted wing drosophila during a field day near Hood River, Ore., on July 30. He is working on projects that ...

Six months after he published “On the Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin wrote a letter to his friend, Asa Gray. He was troubled by a family of parasitic wasps, the ichneumonidae, that lays its eggs ...