For the first time in 20 years, botanists have identified a new carnivorous plant on the Pacific coast of North America, but what’s good news for science is bad news for insects. The Triantha ...

Q: Many insects are visiting my pollinator garden that look like yellow-orange versions of a firefly. Some of the petals are missing on those flowers. How do I keep them from chewing my plants? A: ...

Non-native plant feeding insects can be serious agricultural pests, but a new study estimates that many such invasive insects remain undiscovered. (Getty Images) Over the past two centuries, thousands ...

A plant that grows in bogs along the west coast of North America has been spotted using its flowers to eat insects. Until now, researchers had no idea it was carnivorous. Carnivorous plants absorb ...

When we create a mental image of a carnivorous plant, the Venus flytrap typically comes to mind. As kids, we were enthralled with the spooky idea that a plant could eat meat. However, scientists say ...

Insects can be the bane of any gardener's life. While some bugs, such as bees and butterflies, are beneficial for pollination, others can cause significant harm to our plants, leaving them riddled ...

Voravut Ratanakommon, from Boston, looks at fried rice with meal worms that he ate at a pop-up restaurant. Menu items included grasshopper burger, meal worm fired rice and bbq buffalo worms. Hungry ...