The hot summer months in the U.S. can mean sweltering temperatures, unpredictable thunderstorms, and more bug infestations. While it's natural to see more pests during the summertime, though, some ...

Big black beetles with long antennae might be skittering around your yard or patio this time of year, but fear not: These are just the relatively harmless palo verde beetles, also known as palo verde ...

Until we look at the world we live in from an airplane, it’s hard to understand the real meaning of the “big picture.” With the help of EcoFlight, a program designed to “engage America’s youth in the ...

One morning this week while tying some unruly grapevines to their trellis wire, I came across an interesting insect that was hard to miss. It was a grapevine beetle just resting there on a grape leaf.

The County of Hawaiʻi is renewing a voluntary compliance order for parts of West Hawaiʻi to halt the movement of host ...

IDYLLWILD — The trouble started as a rust-colored tinge at the top of the pine trees on Jim Johnson’s lot in this village. Johnson, a lifelong resident of the mountain town, knew what would come next ...

Fire officials in San Diego County will have an extra challenge this wildfire season. A beetle infestation in the county has killed more than 20,000 oak trees. A new report from the U.S. Forest ...

MANGILAO, Guam — One of this island’s most notorious invasive species apparently is helping another, researchers say. A recent study shows that a lack of birds and rats — because of the brown tree ...

The big beetle haunted R.J. Steer. For years driving through the canyon country south of Colorado Springs, he winced at the sight of that statue there on the hilltop before May Natural History Museum, ...