The ‘mosquito factory’ breeding genetically-engineered insects to fight malaria - IN FOCUS: Malaria cases have skyrocketed in ...

Warm weather and heavy rains do more than feed the plants and cool off Arizona’s hot summers. It also brings out insects and arachnids in droves. Arizona saw heavy rain showers and thunderstorms over ...

The US government is poised to open an unusual new facility in Texas by the end of the year: a "fly factory" designed to combat a flesh-eating parasite threatening American cattle. This $8.5 million ...

Entomologist Mary Liz Jameson, right, shows Luz Horton which kinds of dung beetles likely live on the land where she and her husband, Jamin Horton, own a bison ranch. Burlingame — Without dung beetles ...

Model organisms refer to non-human organisms that are used in the laboratory to understand the structure and function of animals by means of examining their biological processes. These are typically ...

When DDT was first sprayed on large areas to kill insect pests, some naturalists issued grisly warnings that the poison would “upset the balance of nature” causing all sorts of unpredictable havoc. It ...

BURLINGAME — Without dung beetles, rancher Jamin Horton would be up, um, an unpleasant creek. These efficient manure wranglers break down the huge patties produced by the hulking livestock that wander ...