Gnats are a hard-to-eliminate kitchen nightmare. However, you can defeat these tiny terrors with a simple mixture of just ...

When I spotted a scale insect on a leaf of my Thai lime tree recently, I sighed. It’s only December; sometimes they show up only in March. We must coexist indoors for another five months. I had been ...

The science pros at TKOR build a fruit fly trap to show how simple materials attract and capture insects.

A biosecurity operation is underway in Auckland after the find of a Queensland fruit fly. The male fruit fly was in a surveillance trap and identified this morning in Mt Roskill. Legal restrictions ...

Legal controls on the movement of fruits and vegetables in a central Auckland suburb could be in place for four weeks after a Queensland fruit fly was discovered. Mike Inglis, commissioner north for ...

The biosecurity response to the find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in Auckland’s Mt Roskill continues with extra traps in place, fruit testing underway, and great engagement from the community ...

Dopamine in the brain influences movement, learning, motivation and sleep. In humans, problems with dopamine are linked to conditions like Parkinson’s disease, depression and sleep disorders. While ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the ...

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a simple and easy way to attract, trap, and kill gnats," said an inventor, from Elberta, Ala., "so I invented the KNIGHTEN GNAT TRAP.