The choices people make to control mosquitoes in their own backyards may be helping some of those mosquitoes survive the very insecticides meant to kill them, according to two new studies from North ...

Chiggers can invade your yard all summer, reproducing every five to seven days. Use these effective steps to eliminate them ...

Plant diseases caused by many air-born, soil born or waterborne microorganisms, are a major constraint to yield and crop productivity. Development of disease-resistant varieties is one of the key ...

Plant diversity has long been regarded as key to stable and resilient ecosystems. However, until now, little has been understood about why it has different effects in agricultural areas than in ...

Earth remains full of undiscovered species and unexplored interactions that continue to fascinate us, including, in the most ...

A new report by the city’s watchdog says that Chicago's rodent abatement program is unlikely to achieve long-term control of the rat population using reactive methods. The audit, published ...

Traditionally, public health programs have relied on chemicals for mosquito management, and this may be why combating them is ...

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that ...

Sericulture is a vital agro-based industry that supports millions of farming families and provides a renewable source of ...

Members of the public have until July 26 to submit their applications for L.A. County’s first Ethics Commission. Why it ...

Translation: For the French, Portuguese, and Spanish translations of the abstract see the Supplementary Materials section. Emerging vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are a major public health concern ...