Bay leaves are useful for more than just flavoring your food. Here's why this natural repellent is so efficient ...

Inspect any keratinized items you bring into your home. For instance, if you buy a wool sweater at a thrift store, consider ...

Researchers are working on manipulating the digestive systems of wax worms to create a scalable way of disposing of plastic. In 2017, European researchers discovered a potential solution. The larvae ...

Vinegar, especially when heated and mixed with water, helps disorient moths. Spraying a vinegar-based solution into crevices helps eliminate eggs and larvae. Also reduce humidity, freeze infested ...

On one of the friendliest platforms imaginable, a ferocious battle rages. While mowing its way through the surface of a trembling leaf, an aspen leaf miner meets one of its kind. Instead of offering a ...

The box tree moth, an invasive species, has been confirmed in Maryland for the first time — in Washington County. The moth's caterpillars are voracious eaters that can defoliate and kill boxwood ...

Once clothes moth larvae start eating your favorite garments, they’re tough to get rid of. Tiny parasitoid wasps are here to help – they lay their eggs inside the moth’s eggs so you can say bye-bye to ...

(CNN) — Each year, a tiny species in Australia makes a grueling 620-mile (1,000-kilometer) nighttime migration, and it’s pulling off the feat in a way only humans and migratory birds have been known ...

Natural camouflage is one of nature’s greatest gifts in the animal kingdom. Sure, some animals have deadly toxins or surgically sharp claws, but these are active forms of defense. Camouflage is the ...

CBD and related phytocannabinoids show activity against fungi causing deadly cryptococcosis in moth larvae, as well as activity against fungi causing athletes foot, ringworm, and other diseases, ...

Defecating exposes sloths to predators on the jungle floor. An unexpected ally benefits, and returns the favor. A brown-throated three-toed sloth peers over a tree's buttress root while defecating on ...