We evaluated the effects of different land-use systems on the ability of dung beetles to control the population of detritus-feeding flies. We tested the hypotheses that intensification of land use ...

There could be a biological solution to P.E.I's growing Japanese beetle problem. After years of work, researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada are zeroing in on a type of fly that can ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Let’s talk Japanese beetles. As tedious as it sounds, the best way to deal with them is to hand pick them off your plants and plop them into a buckets of soapy water. Research ...

Rhinoceros beetles The pitchfork-shaped horn used by male rhinoceros beetles to shove competitors out of the way may be big, but it's no impediment to flight, say researchers. PhD student Erin ...

It may look like your average housefly, but this invasive, parasitic fly species could help stop the spread of invasive Japanese beetles, which were recently found near downtown Kamloops, B.C. It's ...

BERKELEY (CBS SF) – Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley were able to remotely control a flying beetle with a high amount of precision by installing a tiny backpack with ...

Up until now, scientists believed that the world's smallest beetle couldn't fly. They suspected the featherwing beetle, which is less than one-third of a millimetre long, had to be carried by the wind ...

Dung beetle expert Dr Bernard Doube predicts there will be more bush flies in NSW and Victoria this summer He expects more bush flies to breed in animal manure because there will be fewer dung beetles ...

Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado's Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over ...