ABy Adri Mehra new $6.3 million Insect Quarantine Facility that will allow researchers to study and develop insects for agricultural use opened Friday on the St. Paul campus. The facility’s opening is ...

THIS little book is unfortunate in its title. One would expect to find all its pages given up to economic entomology; instead we find much valuable space taken up with long accounts of a carnivorous ...

Insects outnumber humans, and indeed almost all animals, in the number of organisms belonging to this class. Scientists say they make up over 950,000 insect species, with about 25,000 being bees, ...

Flowering plants attract pollinating insects with scent from their flowers and bright colours. If they have become infested with herbivores like caterpillars, they attract beneficial insects like ...

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