While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For roughly two billion people worldwide, eating insects — known as entomophagy ...

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Researchers at the University of California Riverside found that bed bugs avoid water because it can block their breathing.

Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new research has, for the first time, identified one thing the bugs seem to fear ...

Seeing any insect scuttle around your home is cause for concern, but when it’s a bug that bites, all bets are off. Of course, a slew of different bugs can cruise around your place, making it tough to ...

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A Mississippi State University medical entomologist has gained social media fame for his "Bug World" videos. Jerome Goddard's videos focus on disease-carrying insects like mosquitoes, ticks, and lice.