For the first time in 20 years, botanists have identified a new carnivorous plant on the Pacific coast of North America, but what’s good news for science is bad news for insects. The Triantha ...

Q: Many insects are visiting my pollinator garden that look like yellow-orange versions of a firefly. Some of the petals are missing on those flowers. How do I keep them from chewing my plants? A: ...

Tiny city gardens can be a haven for wildlife such as insects, a study of small city gardens in the Netherlands has found. The two factors that offer the biggest boost are having lots of plants and ...

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

As has been said, if something isn’t eating your plants, you’re not doing it right. Everything is eating something all the time. It’s life — microbes eating bacteria and so on up the food chain to ...