They look like little rowboats, cruising belly up below the surface of a pond or gentle stream. But don’t be fooled. Backswimmers are voracious predators, and when it’s time to find a new home they ...

Mosquitoes continue to build resistance to existing pesticides. Research has now shown that the chemical substances emitted by one of the mosquito's natural enemies -- the backswimmer -- makes the ...

Chemical substances emitted by one of the mosquito's natural enemies, the backswimmer bug make the biological pesticide Bti more deadly. Mosquitoes transmit quite a few deadly diseases, including West ...

I heard my 8-year-old grandson Nick say “OW!” I waited a second for other sounds like the tinkle of glass, a heavy yard tool hitting the ground or the sound of little boy feet running toward me with a ...

The Tory leadership race and the prospect of a no deal Brexit on October 31 have been dominating the UK news over recent weeks and months. But the real catastrophe to hit these shores this summer is a ...

In the battle between insect predators and their prey, chemical signals called kairomones serve as an early-warning system. Pervasively emitted by the predators, the compounds are detected by their ...

- predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites ...

Tiny aquatic bugs hitch a ride on air-filled buoyancy bubbles for minutes at a time while they fossick for food, Australian scientists show. This means the insects, which are about the size of a grain ...

Mosquitoes continue to build resistance to existing pesticides. Research has now shown that the chemical substances emitted by one of the mosquito's natural enemies - the backswimmer - makes the ...