A Moberly man who was accused of trying to carjack a woman at the Jefferson City airport last month has been charged in ...

You can do everything right early in the season to establish a strong cotton crop, but cotton bollworm pressure in July and ...

What looked like a few seeds beside an ant nest in a backyard turned out to be something stranger, and far more consequential ...

How do minute fish larvae find their way in complex and dangerous environments? And what role do different light colors play in their journey? These questions have hardly been researched. A new study ...

Adding native plants to your garden does not need to be complicated, expensive, or labor-intensive. Native plants include ...

The lovebug (officially known as the red-spotted gall midge), often referred to as an unwelcome summer guest in urban areas, is showing signs of another mass outbreak this year. Recently, a cluster of ...

The European blister beetle lays thousands of eggs in the spring. When they hatch, the bright-orange larvae shimmy up flower stems and sit in clumps, waiting for passing solitary bees to latch on to ...

This article was last updated on 02.04.2026. Summer comes with its fair share of pests and annoying biting, stinging insects. While ticks, mosquitoes, and flies are familiar foes, there’s one common ...

A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated or stored in engineered ponds such as manure lagoons. Now, researchers publishing in ACS’ Environmental Science & ...

Many of our most precious childhood memories feature the magnificent firefly. Known for their charming bioluminescence, lightning bugs can make the most mundane settings appear magical. Unfortunately, ...