Higher tree species diversity leads directly to higher diversity of leaf-eating insects, researchers report. Understanding the drivers of the high diversity in tropical forests has been a major ...

WASHINGTON — They pollinate our flowers, vegetables and fruit. They spread deadly diseases. They flash in the summer night. They bore into the wood in our homes. And they serve as supper for birds, ...

NORTH CAROLINA, N.C. (WTVD) -- An invasive insect species is posing a serious threat to a popular kind of tree in the Carolinas. The Crape Myrtle Bark Scale is a felt scale insect that has a main diet ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that examining an insect's "family tree" might help predict a "cousin" insect's level of tolerance to pollutants, and therefore ...

An invasive caterpillar species is posing a serious threat to a cherished native moth, even though the two never directly compete for food, according to new research from ecologists at the University ...

ST. PAUL -- Now the real battle begins. This could be the summer, say tree experts, when the infestation of the emerald ash borer reaches a tipping point for an assault that will kill almost every ash ...