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A mosquito on a leaf.

Tech

Across Maryland and DC, 600,000 male mosquitoes are being released — and none of them bite

Fozzie sniffing under a park bench, searching for spotted lanternflies.

Tech

Virginia trains pet dogs to sniff out lanternfly eggs before they can devastate US vineyards

Wingless juvenile spotted lanternflies, black with bright white spots, on a branch.

Outdoors

Spotted lanternflies are swarming Northern Kentucky, and experts say the invasion may worsen

A damaged zucchini root.

Home

Korea's summer squash trick may outsmart the insects wrecking zucchini gardens

Two fawns with spots stand in a grassy area, surrounded by greenery.

Home

They look adorable in the yard, then deer strip gardens, saplings, and roses bare

A green caterpillar covered in small white larvae on a green leaf.

Home

If you spot white cocoons on a tomato hornworm, leave it be — the wasps are saving your plants

A bat perched on a gloved hand.

Outdoors

Former wildlife control worker removes little brown bat from church attic, then explains rabies risk

Beekeeping hives between sunflower and lavender fields.

Tech

France reauthorizes two bee-poisoning pesticides, and beekeepers erupt in fury

A chicken eating flies off cattle.

Home

Chickens perch on cattle, and biting flies do not stand a chance

An elevated garden bed with soil and several clusters of soil arranged in circular patterns.

Home

A gardener goes 'nuclear' on soil, burning charcoal in beds to kill root-knot nematodes

A child holding a bag with frogs and another image of the child showing a container with more frogs.

Outdoors

Florida 10-year-old hunts invasive cane toads after dark to help keep pets safe

A scorpion.

Home

After trapping nearly a dozen, Texas woman buys a new house to escape weekly scorpions