This return is a sign of an increasingly healthy ecosystem. Experts thrilled after rediscovering rare species last seen ...

The chocolate industry's insatiable demand for cocoa is pushing the Goliath beetle to the brink of extinction.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Washington Dulles International Airport intercepted two rare insects in a shipment of flowers from South Africa, officials announced ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A rare pest never before recorded by United States agricultural officials was discovered earlier this year at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Customs and ...

Skiers are happy. And so is a rare insect known as an ice crawler. While most bugs go dormant during cold weather, these fellas thrive in it. In fact, some of them are scuttling about on Mount ...

Some very rare insects are entirely dependent on a single plant species. For example, there is a small, endangered species of beetle that feeds only on the Lundy cabbage (Rhychosinapis wrightii).

“Houses seem almost as likely of a place to find rare, bizarre insects as the outdoors is.” Trautwein and her team started their study with 50 homes in Raleigh, North Carolina They sent two ...

The Orsillus maculatus was found by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialists, arriving in cypress cones from Jordan.

However, the rates at which these insects visited the flowers were very low. Our results raise important concerns about how forest management practices affect the survival of rare plants, as well as ...