Although ants and aphids are known to share a mutually positive relationship, the ants keep their "cows" in line through behavioral and chemical constraints.

Jun 20, 2009 – Albert Burchsted

Viral diseases that aphids transmit to plants are either persistent or last only a few days. The viruses of persistent infections permeate the entire body of the aphid.

May 18, 2009 – Albert Burchsted

Understanding how bed bugs bite may mean the difference between bring them home to feast on your family and leaving them out in the cold.

May 17, 2009 – S. Elliott

Dangers and restrictions of gall living affect the dwellers. The ways in which aphids attempt to overcome these are highly evolved, yet are sometimes insurmountable.

May 13, 2009 – Albert Burchsted

Although most are aerial, many aphids cause plants to produce galls, produce external camouflage, or even go underground and spend the winter in ant burrows.

May 10, 2009 – Albert Burchsted

Living inside an overgrowth of plant tissue, some aphids are both hidden from predators and derive higher quality nourishment than do free-living aphids.

May 10, 2009 – Albert Burchsted

Although ants will eat anything, they show a different behavior to aphids: protecting them, milking them, and even carrying them onto new plants.

May 3, 2009 – Albert Burchsted

Aphids pierce plant phloem cells and drink the sap. Their feeding method is wasteful. Sometimes they remove so many nutrients the plant withers and dies.

Apr 7, 2009 – Albert Burchsted

From the time the first louse bit a human being, we've put up with them, misunderstood them, hated, them, and used them. They've affected us in return.

Apr 5, 2009 – Rosemary Drisdelle

When the Asian Longhorned Beetles arrived in Worcester, they weren't singing "Love Me Too", but they did exacerbate an already stressful and icy pre-Christmas season

Jan 3, 2009 – Marie Thomas

Few people want blood-sucking insects sharing their bed with them, so how do you get rid of bed bugs? What causes bed bugs in the first place?

Sep 22, 2008 – Brian Tubbs