When hearing the word, “wasp” most people think of fierce swarming insects that can inflict painful, and in some cases, medically threatening stings to humans. In fact, a few wasp species produce venom that is potent enough to kill a human, but nearly all wasp...
During the last century in America, agricultural officials imported more than 180 non-native ladybug species into the United States from Asia. This was done after researchers determined that Asian ladybug species naturally prey upon numerous crop pests within the US....
Many beetle species are known for growing to an alarmingly large size. Some examples of supersized beetle species include the hercules beetle, the large black beetle and the giant stag beetle. Large-bodied insects often put a scare into those who have a fear of...
The Asian longhorned beetle is native to China, but the insects established an invasive population in the northeast United States and southeast Canada during the late 1990s. Since then, these insects have moved westward, and have inflicted tremendous environmental and...
There exists thousands of fly species belonging to the Diptera order of insects that have been documented as existing in almost all areas of the world. Some of the most commonly encountered, and widely distributed fly species include the common housefly, the black...
