Facility will increase range of sterile fly release and bolster preparedness for New World screwworm On Feb. 9 at Moore Air Base, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and Governor of Texas ...

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins was in Edinburg, Texas, on Monday for the domestic NWS sterile fly dispersal facility ...

From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit from working together to survive in a dog-eat-dog ...

An insect species new to science, Tinodes lumbardhi, found in a river in Kosovo, is already on the verge of collapse.

Termite kings and queens live in fortress-like colonies that can last for decades, yet their dynasties rest on a single, highly unusual reproductive partnership. Instead of competing mates and ...

Weekly USDA data show diverging trends in beef and pork exports, offering mixed signals for global protein demand that ...

In their final Mountain West clash, Boise State completed the series sweep of UNM with a win at the Pit Lawmakers review ...

Hercules beetles are massive insects, capable of lifting 850 times their weight. It is no wonder they fetch top dollar from ...

The winners of the seventh edition of the Close-up Photography of the Year (CUPOTY) contest have been announced. This year's ...

This coral usually looks like a common white veggie: the humble cauliflower. The aptly named cauliflower soft coral is made of “countless small, rounded, bump-like polyps that give it a puffy texture, ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing a shift in its 100 million per week sterile fly dispersal efforts to stop ...

Formosan and Asian termites are almost entirely restricted to tropical climates, but the invasive insects have consistently arrived to newly habitable regions due to warming temperatures caused by ...