The first time Brian Hamming saw a marsh awash in purple loosestrife–often called the purple plague–he thought he and other members of the Environmental Club at Lake Forest High School would be ...

I’m sure you know purple loosestrife, even if you don’t know its name. It’s a big, tall clumping plant bearing bright pinkish-purple flowers and it’s appearing now in your neighborhood, especially in ...

They burned it, mowed it, sprayed it and flooded it. But nothing killed the purple loosestrife weed, which has become a regional plague, until officials at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ...

A great joy of being an entomologist is so many of the little bugs you discover are SHINY. Today's Moment of Nature Zen is a great example; this little beetle is only 1.7cm long (less than an inch), ...

A team of Michigan Tech faculty recently defeated an unlikely invader: a pretty purple flower. DECEMBER 3, 2003 -- A team of Michigan Tech faculty recently defeated an unlikely invader: a pretty ...

Purple loosestrife — chances are you’ve seen it growing along the roads, and you may even have thought its purple spires were a thing of beauty. SUNY Potsdam Professor Dr. Jessica Rogers is passionate ...

BOYNE CITY — The beetles are coming to Boyne City — not the well-know musical group, but rather insects that will eat an invasive plant. At its most recent regular meeting last week, the Boyne City ...

The sticky, purple, tree-hanging boxes have arrived in Greater Nashua. Let’s hope they never work. Called prism traps, because their shape is the prism shape that creates rainbows when it’s made of ...

If there’s one thing we can’t get enough of at Nerdist, it’s bugs. Not in a Snowpiercer kind of way, though. Rather, we like them as reminders of how weird and wonderful all of Earth’s little, ...

The heather beetle has been blamed for moorland turning from purple to shades of orange and brown. The insects have thrived after the "Beast from the East" weakened resilience in plants, said the ...

Scientists found a purple animal with a “remarkably big body” and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area of Punakha. Photo from Nihar Modi via Unsplash A shiny ...

In the video, Chlasmisus shimmers with a royal purple carapace and a very David Bowie-like combination purple-green streak across its head. (There’s just something about the bug that screams rockstar.