Termites are small insects in the same family as cockroaches, but most people would prefer an infestation of the latter.

Does this difference affect the gluing, machining, etc., properties when making cabinets? A. Indeed ,sometimes we “experts” ...

“The beetles do make a difference,” says Hans Cornelissen at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Researchers already knew that, by killing trees, insect infestations in forests ...

A woman is sounding the alarm on retail stores that sell wood furniture after she claims a decorative wood ladder she brought into her home was infested with powderpost beetles. “This is just ...

What does the Asian longhorned beetle eat? Asian longhorned beetles in the larval stage burrow through trees, eating the wood as they go. Adult beetles are herbivores and tend to eat twigs and leaves.

BELLAIRE, MI – An invasion of beetles is coming, and it will bring another wave of damage to the already battered Michigan Northwoods. Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of ...

The darkling beetle feeds on decaying plant matter such as dead leaves and rotting wood. The darkling beetles may be of the Tenebrionidae beetle family, which includes more than 15,000 species ...

Benji Jones is an environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

The fluid can be weaponized to take down other insects, like wood-boring beetles, one of the most destructive vermin in spruce forests. The fighting tactic, Seifert explains, involves “biting ...

Wood ash has proven effective in controlling a wide variety of garden pests—from slugs and snails to beetles and borers—as a diluted solution applied to leaves and as a dust. In laboratory ...