The spotted lanternfly, native to Asia, could harm Oregon's grape and nursery businesses, the state Department of Agriculture ...

Plastic pollution is harming slugs, beetles, snails and earthworms, new research has found, raising fears Britain’s entire food chain has been contaminated. Researchers found more than one in ten bugs ...

According to the work in the Journal of Medical Entomology, the blood-sucking insects love black and red but hate ... They tend to prefer fabric and wood over plastic and metal.

Setp. 21, 2008— -- Newly discovered bacterial alchemists could help save billions of plastic bottles from landfills. The Pseudomonas strains can convert the low-grade PET plastic used in ...

Rocks in Trader Joe’s cookies. Insects in its broccoli-cheese soup. Pieces of plastic in Banquet frozen chicken strips. In recent weeks, U.S. consumers have seen high-profile food recalls for an ...

Eating microplastics did not appear to affect the insects' survival and growth. Plastic pollution occurs in every ecosystem on the planet and lingers for decades. Could insects be part of the ...