Arizona's plants and creepy crawlers are always trying to hurt you. Or at least that's how the joke goes, and it certainly does seem that way sometimes. Between the rattlesnakes, Gila monsters and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FLAGSTAFF — As flurries started to descend on the forest floor, a team of researchers examined a stand of sickly quaking aspen ...

With not many bugs crawling around Arizona in the winter months, the creatures begin to emerge from the desert terrain in the hot and sunny weather. Nature Guard Pest & Lawn states that as ...

What looked like an inanimate object was actually a tiny, sap-sucking insect called oystershell scale. Its diminutive size belies the greater threat it poses to aspens and trees throughout Arizona.

The UA Mall was a hive of activity on Saturday, thanks in part to a research showcase from the Department of Entomology. The department held its first-ever Arizona Insect Festival, which exhibited the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) – The Arizona Insect Festival is back this October for it’s 11th year of celebration. The University of Arizona's Department of Entomology hosts this unique festival to encourage ...

The Arizona Insect Festival will be underway for free Sunday, Oct. 6 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the University of Arizona’s Environment and Natural Resources 2 building, with free parking included at the ...

Bug enthusiasts will be seeing red at this year’s Arizona Insect Festival, with a new exhibit dedicated to a prickly-pear-loving parasite used to make scarlet dye once prized by everyone from the ...

The Maricopa harvester ant, native to Arizona and the southwest U.S., holds the world record for most toxic insect venom. Although its venom is potent, the ant is relatively docile and stings are not ...