Most gardeners reach for the spray bottle the moment they spot a pest. But that reflex may be doing more harm than good, ...

WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch wants career police officers to retire with generous benefits, in an attempt to address ...

One stubborn ant marching across the kitchen counter can spark a full-blown war. Most people reach for a pricey chemical spray without thinking twice, but a better solution sits quietly in the cabinet ...

Nobody likes the idea of having ants at home, and it can be frustrating, especially if the ants are found on the counter or ...

Rats and mice flock to bird feeders as the weather warms, but there is a natural way to keep feeding birds without attracting ...

State, city and county inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants and stores for hundreds of food-safety violations during the past several weeks, including offenses related to expired meat, cockroaches ...

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Winged ants aren’t random pests. Discover why over 1,000 US species take flight, form super colonies, and how to stop them for good.

A meta-analysis recently published in the journal BMC Biology (Cait et al., 2022) found that rats and mice housed in conventional laboratory cages have higher mortality rates and greater disease ...

A recent meta-analysis published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science (Cait et al., 2024) found that the more types of resources (i.e., “enrichment”) rodents receive, the better their ...

Christopher Terrell Nield, a chemist at Nottingham Trent University, has warned that gardens could soon be overrun with slugs ...