Cone gall aphids pull off a molecular heist every spring, injecting proteins into plants that force the plants to build a ...

Tiny insects called aphids inject hundreds of mysterious proteins into plants, hijacking the plants' own genomes to build galls: structures made of plant tissue but constructed to the insects' ...

When growing eggplants in a home garden, you may sometimes find large numbers of tiny insects on the undersides of the leaves ...

Ohio resident Matt Jacobsen was recently on a walk in a nature reserve near his house when he spotted an aphid on the ground.

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

The risk for pandemic diseases caused by arboviruses is rising as the dispersal rate of their arthropod vectors increases. During probing and feeding of arthropod vectors, vector-borne viruses are ...

Have you ever seen tips on social media or home gardening blogs suggesting that 'laying aluminum foil under leaves or on the ...

A video circulating online shows a small sap-sucking insect called an aphid, not a genetically modified mosquito with a number stamped on it released by philanthropist Bill Gates, as online posts ...

Normally, animals get their DNA from their parents. But a new study shows that they can also get genes from another species. In fact, animals can even take genes from creatures outside of the animal ...

A March 19 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows an insect with distinct black markings resting on a person's finger. "Since when do mosquitos have (numbers) stamped on them?" reads ...