It’s miller moth season in Colorado – an entomologist explains why they’re important and where they’re headed
Miller moths migrate through the state every summer and are sometimes considered to be a pest.
June 3, 2025 • ~8 min
Miller moths migrate through the state every summer and are sometimes considered to be a pest.
Two ecologists explain why a misleading map is worse than no map at all, and how they have worked for years to track the emergences of 13-year and 17-year cicadas.
The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.
Fruit flies wreak havoc on crops in Hawaii, but a type of parasitoid wasp armed with a biological weapon has helped keep the pests at bay.
The last time that these two groups of cicadas emerged from underground together, Thomas Jefferson was president.
Female mosquitoes don’t want to lay their eggs alone, but they don’t want sites that are too crowded either. Understanding what guides their choice could inform new control strategies.
A new study shows how artificial light at night scrambles insects’ normal flight patterns, pulling them off course into orbit around the light.
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