Penn State researchers discover flavonoids make corn earworm larvae sick. New herbicides and a bioinsecticide show promise. AI takes on SCN.

A host of dark-dwelling creepy crawlies help plants just as bees and butterflies do. New research is showing just how much the world relies on them.

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The story goes that Virgil had a pet housefly, and when the insect died, Virgil spent 800,000 sesterces—nearly all of his net worth—for an extravagant funeral. Celebrities swarmed the poet’s home.

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By Lisa Held for Civil Eats. Broadcast version by Mark Moran for Iowa News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism ...

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I don’t know,” Jason pondered about if the cast ... Crickets were eaten, chocolate was melted and mosquitoes loved the bug spray,” he wrote in the caption of the March 23, 2025, Instagram ...