Common bedbugs experienced a dramatic jump in population size about 13,000 years ago, around the time humans congregated in the first cities.

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As summer season begins, millions of biting flies are waiting to welcome visitors to northern Michigan. How to keep them away.

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The butterfly population in the U.S. has dropped more than 20% over the past two decades. Some species living in Connecticut ...

Australia has a remarkable reputation as a place where animals believed to be extinct – sometimes for more than a century – ...

It’s called the wheel bug due to the distinct, serrated crest that protrudes from the top of its thorax. Its habitats include sunflowers, cotton, locust tree trunks, and fruit or tree groves.