The winter forecast is approaching, but the current warm conditions on P.E.I. mean pests are still present. Clay Cutting, an ...

Ontario is home to all manners of fearsome critters, including one that ranks as the largest insect in all of Canada, packing ...

This story appears in the April 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Six zipped her jacket and ambled into the woods with an ax. She stopped at a mixed stand of emerald and burnt-orange ...

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All across the United States and Canada, tiny pine bark beetles are killing trees. From the northern pine bark beetle in Canada, the mountain pine bark beetle in Colorado, Montana, and Idaho to the ...

Bed bugs can’t stand the heat. Temperatures above 46°C kill all life stages. Professional heat treatments raise room temperatures to lethal levels, reaching hidden bugs that chemicals might miss.

A retired Yukon-based entomologist is finding artistic inspiration in the tiniest and most private of places: beetle genitalia. Benoit Godin has been studying aleocharine rove beetles for 18 years.

With its striking orange-and-black carapace, the American burying beetle once occurred in 35 states across the eastern half of the United States and parts of Canada. But its numbers have declined by ...