Mothballs only help prevent spiders by keeping one of their food sources (moths) away. Here's how experts actually recommend ...

Key Points Mothballs are most effective at deterring clothes moths and their larvae.Beyond clothes moths, mothballs do not repel most pests and animals.To use mothballs safely and effectively, always ...

LONDON - Scientists in Britain say they have developed a way of genetically modifying and controlling an invasive species of moth that causes serious pest damage to cabbages, kale, canola and other ...

A bioengineered oilseed plant can produce a moth sex pheromone molecule used to control insect pests. Pheromones are chemical signals that cause a behavioural response in members of the same or ...

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Researchers in a New York cabbage patch are planning the first release on American soil of insects genetically engineered to die before they can reproduce. It's a pesticide-free ...

Farmers are hoping for a cool, wet spring to halt a three-year population explosion of a pest which has the potential to ...

The moth menace becomes noticeably high in April when people start sporting their spring clothes or throwing away old ones -Credit:Patrick Clement A 'quick and easy' natural cleaning method can help ...

Insect experts across the nation agreed to change the name of a common invasive pest to end the longtime use of an ethnic slur. The Entomological Society of America on Wednesday, March 2, announced ...

As part of an international consortium, researchers have sequenced one of the first genomes of a moth from the superfamily Noctuoidea: Spodoptera frugiperda, or armyworm. This crop pest -- until now ...