While you’re enjoying summer sunshine, many common pests are already preparing for their next move—indoors. As early as midsummer, insects and rodents begin scouting for safe, sheltered places to ride out the cooler months ahead. And if your home...

While you’re enjoying summer sunshine, many common pests are already preparing for their next move—indoors. As early as midsummer, insects and rodents begin scouting for safe, sheltered places to ride out the cooler months ahead. And if your home...
For most Californians, bees aren't a serious threat. But these tiny flying insects can be a nuisance if they start building their homes near you. Learning to recognize different types of bees can help you understand which bees to avoid, their...
It’s true, we can’t live without pollinators, and they can’t live without our help. The most common pollinators are insects, including bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and beetles. But these are not the only ones. There are about 1500...
Scientists have recently discovered a mysterious, 100-million-year-old insect trapped in amber — and as far as anyone knows, it is unlike any other insect that has ever lived on Earth. This strangely pieced together bug, looks like a composite of...
Border Crossings are happening every day, and it’s not just people looking for a better life. Humans, animals, fish, insects, plants and diseases (bacteria and viruses) cross our borders on a regular basis and have been since borders were...
We have a lot to be thankful for this year. But did you know that there are a lot of reasons to be thankful for insects, our co-inhabitants of this planet? Besides being a nutritious food source for millions of people, they provide their own form...
There are lots of flying insects out and about in our gardens, fields and other open areas and they are all busy at work fulfilling nature’s directives. So, since we humans are also frequenting these same places it’s important for us to steer...
In a U C San Diego study on the Africanized bees’ population growth in Southern California, it was found that more than 60 percent of foraging honeybees in San Diego County are now Africanized. News Flash -- Africanized honeybees, known as killer...
How Drought Affects Migrating Insects Current drought conditions are the most severe in approximately 1,200 years, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. 40% of California is in the “exceptional” drought category, which is up 23% from a year...