While you’re enjoying summer sunshine, many common pests are already preparing for their next move—indoors. As early as midsummer, insects and rodents begin scouting for safe, sheltered places to ride out the cooler months ahead. And if your home...
While you’re enjoying summer sunshine, many common pests are already preparing for their next move—indoors. As early as midsummer, insects and rodents begin scouting for safe, sheltered places to ride out the cooler months ahead. And if your home...
For most Californians, bees aren't a serious threat. But these tiny flying insects can be a nuisance if they start building their homes near you. Learning to recognize different types of bees can help you understand which bees to avoid, their...
Scientists have recently discovered a mysterious, 100-million-year-old insect trapped in amber — and as far as anyone knows, it is unlike any other insect that has ever lived on Earth. This strangely pieced together bug, looks like a composite of...
We have a lot to be thankful for this year. But did you know that there are a lot of reasons to be thankful for insects, our co-inhabitants of this planet? Besides being a nutritious food source for millions of people, they provide their own form...
There are lots of flying insects out and about in our gardens, fields and other open areas and they are all busy at work fulfilling nature’s directives. So, since we humans are also frequenting these same places it’s important for us to steer...
In a U C San Diego study on the Africanized bees’ population growth in Southern California, it was found that more than 60 percent of foraging honeybees in San Diego County are now Africanized. News Flash -- Africanized honeybees, known as killer...