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10/14/2020
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By Divina Ramirez
Massive locust swarms threaten parts of southern Africa
Migratory locust swarms are poised to tear across the nations of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, according to a recent report from CTV News. These swarms are smaller and less detrimental than the billions of desert locust swarms from two months ago that damaged crops in Ethiopia, Yemen and parts of India. Nonetheless, authorities from […]
10/10/2020
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By Cassie B.
Study warns US farmland is now 48 TIMES more TOXIC to insects: Are neonicotinoids to blame for the impending “insect apocalypse?”
Researchers have determined that the nation’s farmland is now 48 times more toxic to insects than it was just 25 years ago, and much of this rise in toxicity is being blamed on the widespread use of a dangerous category of pesticides known as neonicotinoids. The study, which was published in the PLOS ONE journal, […]
07/30/2020
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By Zoey Sky
Food security under threat – Study links dwindling bee populations to decreasing crop yields in America
Bees may be tiny, but home gardeners and farmers rely on these hardworking insects for pollination. However, a recent study has found that crop yields in the U.S. are declining because of a lack of pollinators. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, has researchers from Rutgers University worried that […]
05/22/2020
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By Janine Acero
Double whammy: Traditional agriculture’s crop diversity depends on the pollinators it is killing, threatening the food supply
A group of multinational researchers has assessed the connection between trends in crop diversity and agricultural reliance on pollinators and found that the increasing reliance on pollinators, combined with an absence of crop diversity, may threaten agricultural stability. Worldwide agribusiness has expanded at a rapid pace in recent decades, especially in regions that once supported tropical and […]
05/20/2020
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By Janine Acero
Food supply in danger? Beekeepers lost 40% of honey bee colonies in a year
The Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) annual Honey Bee Colonies report has detailed a decline in honey bee populations following the recent budget cuts by the Trump Administration. A nationwide survey led by the University of Maryland’s non-profit organization Bee Informed Partnership shows that beekeepers lost 40.7 percent of their honey bee colonies in just one […]
03/09/2020
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By Tracey Watson
While everybody panics about coronavirus, insects are heading for extinction in both the U.S. and Europe … No insects means no food
Nothing epitomizes a warm, sunny day like the sound of bees buzzing peacefully from plant to plant in the garden. These little creatures do far more than provide us with delicious honey, however. Without bees and other pollinators, humans and other animals would cease to exist on our planet. The renowned poet Maurice Maeterlinck warned […]
12/20/2019
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By Cassie B.
Manmade toxins are destroying the natural world and will lead to ecological collapse
Talk of a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” is not hyperbole; that’s the exact terminology used in the first global scientific review of the world’s insect populations. Overall, more than 40 percent of insect species are seeing declines, while a third are considered endangered. The extinction rate of insects is eight times that of reptiles, […]
10/11/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Creepy crawlies love veggies, too: Video shows a microscopic hive of activity in the vegetables you buy
Not in the habit of washing fruits and vegetables before cooking and chowing down on them? A recently released video showed all kinds of tiny insects, bugs, and microbes living on the unwashed surface of plant foods. Danish biomedical student Martin Kaae Kristiansen studies at Aalborg University. The 28-year-old obtained several common vegetables from the local […]
09/22/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Bugs for green thumbs: 7 Beneficial bugs that you need in your garden
The next time a person encounters a bug in his garden, he may want to rein in his reflexive response of crushing it like a, well, bug. Some of these critters fulfill beneficial roles such as delivering pollen to flowers and devouring actual pest species. Start with the praying mantis, one of the biggest and […]
08/30/2019
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By Evangelyn Rodriguez
Planthoppers “shake their bodies” to attract their mates
Planthoppers are Hemiptera or “true bugs” that are of great interest to scientists due to their destructive nature. Not only does their strange way of eating cause damage to some plants, it also makes them unwitting vectors of plant diseases. Recently, however, a group of researchers from the University of Oxford in the U.K. discovered something about these […]
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