It's a pleasure to watch beautiful butterflies flit around the yard from bloom to bloom. If you aren't seeing many, you may ...

Garlic is not a substance that most people consider an aphrodisiac. It turns out that mosquitoes agree. In fact, a new Yale study finds that garlic also functions as a de facto birth control for ...

Some birds and other animals are 'brood parasites' whose mothers leave their offspring with other species. A mother ...

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

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

Mosquitoes can quickly make a pleasantly warm evening unbearable—so much so that you might decide to stay inside rather than deal with the annoying, biting pests. You might think that a bug zapper is ...

One summer day, 8-year-old Hugo Deans spotted a cluster of tiny, BB-sized spheres (galls) near an ant nest in his backyard.