When downed trees are attacked by beetles, the wood becomes more flammable, demonstrating another way insects can alter the ...

You won't always see the insects drilling into your wood, but careful inspection can reveal damage and even tell you which ...

Infestation rates of bark- and wood-boring insects in wooden packing materials decreased by up to 52 percent from 2003 to 2009 after the implementation of International Standards for Phytosanitary ...

The Pyrearinus candelarius bugs are dark brown insects with large ... entered its 1999 eruptive phase. While metallic ...

Split a piece of wood, and they are there ... They began simply, smooth and round, but over 300 million years, insect eggs have become as varied as the places where insects reign.

and it’s estimated that there are currently 10 quintillion insects on the globe. So far scientists who study bugs, called entomologists, have named one million insect species but studies ...

We associate insect ingestion with reality television ... bodies as a portable pantry — and witchetty grubs, or large, wood-eating moth larvae. Roasted witchetty grub has a crispy skin with ...

Insect body parts have names a lot like ours — the head ... The top hard shell of the jewel (wood-boring) beetle is similarly iridescent and is used for necklaces — and believe it or not, in some ...