For 15 years, Kuhlow, a 51-year-old former Stony Brook microbiology researcher, has been logging observations of leaf and bud appearances — in his own garden, or farther afield on a hike — into a ...

If you look quickly, you might mistake the ghost mantis for a dead leaf. Its decorative appearance is one of its best tools.

Camouflage is a common defensive strategy among animals. By modifying their coloration and patterning, animals evade ...

In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a ...

Though nasturtiums can be seeded indoors, I find it easier to plant the seeds out in the garden when the soil has begun to warm up a little. This usually happens around mid-April, though that usual ...

Treated plants fight pests without the need for toxic pesticides, oozing a "larval toffee" that stunts tomato pinworms’ growth and attracts predators.

Leaf development describes the coordinated morphogenesis process by which a leaf is formed, and grows to become a mature photosynthetic organ. It starts from the initiation of a primordium in the ...

Today, her farm, tucked away in a quiet neighborhood outside Pattaya, is part of Thailand’s thriving edible insect industry, home to over 20,000 cricket farms. As a member of a cooperative of 18 ...

THUNDER BAY — Break out the green and purple ... “As the story goes, St. Urho drove all the grasshoppers out of Finland to protect the grape crops…, so that they could keep on having ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Greensboro Grasshoppers have made permanent history on the streets of Greensboro. Seven new statues now adorn three corners of Eugene and Bellmeade, paying tribute to the ...

The solar-powered device can make valuable energy-dense molecules from carbon dioxide and water. For many years, researchers have been working to build devices that can mimic photosynthesis—the ...