As millions pour every year into the Crown of the Continent — outfitted perhaps for any variety of Montanan adventure — one retired biochemist equipped with little more than a sharp putty-knife has ...

Nick Teets (left) and Leslie Potts (right) on a 2018 trip to Antarctica. The two are now part of an international research team, being led by Teets, that are going to study Antarctic midges, which are ...

Entomologists in Bradford County have confirmed the first official case of a new invasive species in Pennsylvania, a tiny insect known as the swede midge. Measuring just 1/16th of an inch, the pests ...

Summer is almost here, and the bugs are arriving, too: The warmer weather has brought new concerns about midges, ticks and much-disdained spotted lanternflies. Here’s what to know about possible ...

If you've gone out for a walk or run on the paths near Milwaukee's Lake Michigan beaches in the past few weeks, it was likely interrupted by swarms of tiny, black insects. Often mistaken for ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Few people in Upper Midwest had even heard of soybean gall midges until a few years ago, but now the insect is a growing threat to soybeans in the region. "This is an economically ...

Rising temperatures in Antarctica could endanger the only insect native to the frozen continent. Researchers at the University of Kentucky, led by insect psychologist Nicholas Teets studied the ...

Millions of tiny insects have been whirling ashore in northwest Kenner from the nearby LaBranche Wetlands for several days, plastering themselves to houses, clinging to window screens, and generally ...

No, you’re not imagining those 10-foot-high insect clouds hovering near Lake Michigan, each teeming with thousands of mosquito look-alikes. Chicago, we’ve got midges. They don’t bite, they don’t harm ...

No matter what you call them, some near-invisible pests can make life miserable at times here in Florida. Biting midges, also commonly called no-see-ums because of how tiny they are, have been making ...