Permethrin, a chemical compound that helps control insect and tick infestations, can be applied to clothing and equipment.

Future AI systems - particularly those used in robotics, autonomous vehicles and real-time decision-making - could be revolutionised by adopting similar principles of movement-driven, adaptive ...

What renders a city garden attractive to insects such as solitary bees, bumblebees and hoverflies? And how well do they ...

Consumer Reports tests lotions, sprays, wipes, and plant-based repellents on real people, using real mosquitoes.

AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...

Pollinators have economic and health benefits, but those benefits have been difficult to quantify. A new study puts some ...

Scientists are always looking for better ways to foil bugs that leave itchy welts in their wake. Despite the many tools being studied, from tick-killing fungus to genetically modified mosquitoes, bug ...

The University of Georgia's Live Insect Zoo allows visitors to get up close with arthropods, aiming to reduce fear.