A trial using peach pits to cover the ground in a children’s playground on the staunchly Protestant former island of Urk has failed because the children used them as missiles, local media reported.

Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River. Those weevils aren't tossed into the river by ...

HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (AP) — Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River. Those ...

The weevils aren't the first insects to be introduced to curb an invasive threat in South Africa. The country brought in a bug in the 1930s to control the spread of a hardy cactus native to Mexico ...

It is hoped the device, dubbed 'Weevil', will replace current mine-clearing methods that require a crew of three soldiers to risk their lives to carve a safe path through a minefield in a 62-tonne ...