Sign up to receive the Future Tense newsletter every other Saturday. For the first few days, I ignored the teeny bugs crawling around my bathroom window sill at night ...

A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone or ...

A free mobile app called TX Invasives is now available from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin for identifying harmful non-native plant, insect and other ...

Backyard Farmer will give some insect identification tips and more This week on Backyard Farmer we get some insect identification tips and hear about a young boy’s passion for gardening. In addition ...

Iowa State's Arti Singh is leading a project that builds on the Pest-ID web-based tool that helps farmers across Iowa and around the world identify and manage crop threats. AMES, Iowa – The technology ...

You're in your garden and notice a beautiful, new-to-you flower that has popped up somewhere unexpected — pull it or leave it? Or perhaps an unfamiliar garden pest has ravaged your tomato plants. Or ...

Believe it or not, there are quite a few plant & flower identification apps available for Android, and we’re here to check out the best ones. Well, we’ll talk about the ones we think are the best, ...

It’s a mobile app that provides real-time, hyperlocal risk information about disease-carrying insects and arachnids. The app ...