A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to ...

AMES, Iowa – A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a ...

Provides dichotomous key and illustrations that provide identification of common arthropods to the order/class level. by Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Details insect ...

KEY TO THE FAMILIES OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS BY CHARLES T BRUES AND AL MELANDER ...

Keys to the Living and Extinct Families of Insects, and to the Living Families of Other Terrestrial Arthropods. By Prof. Charles T. Brues, Prof. A. L. Melander and Prof. Frank M. Carpenter. (Bulletin ...

This illustration shows how the "Pest-ID" tool developed by Iowa State researchers can help farmers identify and manage pests of all kinds. AMES, Iowa - A 2016 research paper explored a vision for ...

The number of insect species is mind-boggling — and they are a critical part of the environment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Backyard Farmer will give some insect identification tips and more This week on Backyard Farmer we get some insect identification tips and hear about a young boy’s passion for gardening. In addition ...

Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...

Common European spittlebugs secretly spread a deadly bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, threatening over 600 plant species.