Evolved to make killing look easy. Every so often around the BiodiversityWorks office, where I hold my real job, somebody finds something cool, and we all flock outdoors to see it. Most recently, my ...

In this work, the stage preference and functional response of the indigenous reduviid bug Rhynocoris longifrons feeding on five different densities of the cotton aphid Aphis gossypii, Phenacoccus ...

A pair of kissing bugs, with the female seen at the bottom, are shown in a photo from Tucson, Arizona, on June 8, 2006. A pair of kissing bugs, with the female seen at the bottom, are shown in a photo ...

Chagas disease, aka “kissing bug” disease is now endemic in the US. The disease has been detected as far north as Pennsylvania. Chagas disease can be deadly if it’s left untreated. A deadly “kissing ...

A group of researchers is looking for Chagas disease, also known as "kissing bug" disease, to be ranked as an endemic in the United States. In a recently published study, researchers from the ...

Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities. Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability ...

People in Florida are having to worry about a unique disease-carrying insect known as the kissing bug. New research shows these bugs are often loaded with a parasite that can cause a chronic, ...

So far as is known, the majority of Reduviidæ are predators of other insects, and consequently their anterior legs in particular, with the median legs, are of utmost importance in assisting them to ...

Noualhierella Villiers, 1951 (Reduviidae: Stenopodainae), a small genus endemic to Eastern Madagascar is revised based on an examination of the type specimens. A redescription of the genus is given, ...

The Tocklai Tea Research Institute (TTRI) in Assam has initiated a pioneering approach to pest control in tea gardens by utilizing the native Reduviid Bugs. These carnivorous insects are seen as a ...

Jorhat (Assam) [India], November 30 (ANI): A groundbreaking biological approach has been initiated to manage the pest infestation in the tea gardens by breeding and deploying the Reduviid Bugs, a ...

Close readers of this blog will know that last year Mark noted toward the end of the season a very unusual looking insect in two of his strawberry research plots, which UCCE Entomologist on the ...