Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crop losses in African countries due to insect pests are estimated at 49% of the expected total crop yield each year, according to ...

Africa is not short on intimidating insects, and a surprising number of them come with painful stings. While most of these ...

The destruction of the Goliath beetles’ natural habitats is eroding the delicate balance of the ecosystem that they are critical to maintaining. In the heart of Africa’s rich and diverse landscapes, a ...

Researchers found elephants help sustain a hidden network of insects, with their loss triggering biodiversity declines across ecosystems.

The fossil thrips discovered in the Orapa Diamond Mine. Dr Sandiso Mnguni, CC BY-NC-ND Now it’s emerged that thrips are hardly new to the African continent and the southern hemisphere more broadly.

In Chebika, as in other rural areas in central Tunisia, many farmers' fields of prickly pear have been spoiled by the cochineal, which swept through North Africa 10 ...

A woman who was bitten by an insect five years ago is now in constant fear she will die. Fern Wormald, 48, has never felt well since being bitten on her toe while on safari in Senegal in 2017. She ...

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (Icipe) and the Alliance of Biodiversity International and CIAT hosted a dining event titled “Biodiversity Bites: A Culinary Journey into ...

Thrips are tiny insects – their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they cause to crops is anything but small. A 2021 research paper found that ...