I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. There are lots of insects that farmers hate. But there also are some they like. These protect crops against damage from other insects.

All natural pest control is possible when you have the right balance of insects in your garden, and there's one 'pest' that ...

(UPI) -- Record numbers of ladybugs are swarming swaths of the South. The multi-colored Asian Lady Beetles usually surface around this time of year -- just after the first cold snap -- but weather ...

BISMARCK - North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple today signed House Bill 1219 into law. It designates the Convergent Lady Beetle, commonly known as the ladybug, as the official state insect. The Governor ...

Over the past few weeks as I’ve been writing about insects it came to me that there are literally hundreds of thousands of different kinds of living insects on our planet. More than 1.5 million of ...

Way back in the 1960s and '70s, the nine-spotted ladybug was the most common ladybug in the northeastern US. So beloved was this particular ladybug that it was designated as the official state insect ...

Ms. Johnson's second grade class is coming back to the State House on Friday, and their story from 50 years ago shows how a teacher and a little civics education can have a marked impact — on a ...