ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - The city of Enterprise is the only place in the world with a monument dedicated to a pest. The monument isn’t heralding the bug itself but the prosperity it brought when it ...

Two of these new species are present in Japan: Aphanerostethus magnus (Oo-daruma-kuchikakushi-zoumushi) and Aphanerostethus japonicus (Nippon-daruma-kuchikakushi-zoumushi). One of these, ...

Scientists working for government breed biological control agents in lab to take on species choking native wildlife ...

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - Beacon of Hope ABA in Enterprise is bringing awareness to people on the autism spectrum using something near and dear to the city of Enterprise. Boll weevils are a big part ...

Environmental Science and Informatics Section (OIST) staff member Jake Lewis is working on taxonomy and evolution of weevils. Currently, he is using a wide variety of techniques like microscopy, ...

One Saturday morning, years ago, we awoke to a rather horrifying sight: hundreds of little brown bugs pouring out of the pantry cupboard and across the kitchen floor. We've encountered ants, pantry ...

Jake Lewis, an entomologist in the Environmental Science and Informatics Section at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), is fascinated by weevils, a diverse group of beetles that ...