East Texas spring rains followed by heat means the annual battle against summer pests: the seasonal fight to stop invading ...

New research reveals that a termite shortage might be at the root of slower decomposition of dead wood in second growth ...

Many plants in Texas landscapes are suitable hosts for aphids, including bedding plants, ash, barberry, boxelder, crape myrtle, jasmine, flowering almond, gardenia, hibiscus, hydrangea, mountain ash, ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a ...

Young rainforests lack termites, and that may slow their recovery. Scientists explore reintroducing key decomposers to ...

Termites -- infamous for their ability to destroy wood -- are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly replanted. But a new paper suggests that termite transplants may be ...

Termites—infamous for their ability to destroy wood—are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly ...

A mysterious network of enormous structures, spanning 88,000 square miles in the desert of northeastern Brazil, has been ...

Late spring is creeping into early summer in New Orleans, and residents have one annoying insect other than mosquitoes to keep an eye out for — swarming termites. Formosan termites ...

This event highlights the critical role of even the smallest ecological components, such as termite mounds, which often go unnoticed but serve as vital microhabitats for rare species." ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. A growing number of little mounds are appearing across the region of Yakutia in the Russian Far East. Known as "bylars" in the Yakut language ...

In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the landscape, cracking up houses and releasing greenhouse gases. A growing ...