With mosquitoes, chiggers and no-see-ums out and biting people this summer, here's how to tell the difference between the ...

Sparrows Point residents are fed up with midges, a nuisance insect that is worse this year than most can remember.

Recent helicopter flights over the Potomac River are part of an ongoing effort to both better understand and more effectively control the black fly population, swarms of which have been a nuisance to ...

Here’s how to tell the difference between mosquitoes, chiggers and no-see-ums by their bites and how to treat and prevent ...

A better word for edges would be transitions. In other words, where one type of water changes to another, one type of bottom ...

When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee. Perhaps, if you’re feeling adventurous, a butterfly or a hummingbird. That’s a ...

Helicopters will be seen over various parts of central and western Pennsylvania this week. The aerial “attack” is part of the Department of Environmental Protection’s effort to combat the Black Fly.

Most insect pests have natural predators. I feel compelled to write about this topic about once a year, because I abhor ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture works to neutralize -- again -- the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly.

By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...