While enjoying a ride with your horse on a perfect, sunny day, you sink into the saddle in pure relaxation. Then suddenly, a horse fly lands on your horse’s rear end. He swishes his tail and the ...

GLENWOOD, MINN - At Dorrich Dairy in Glenwood, Minnesota. Just south of Alexandria, the fourth generation Vold family takes sustainability to a new level by using wasps to control flies. "They bite, ...

Up until now, spring farming, gardening and many recreational activities have been relatively free of nuisance insects. Recent reports indicate that several species of biting flies have emerged in ...

Have you ever been bothered by that annoying fly that buzzes around you head like a miniature dive bomber? Just imagine how a cow feels with dozens of flies buzzing, biting and aggravating it all day ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Bloodsucking pests like bat fleas and bat flies may not sound very appealing to the rest of us, but to University at Buffalo biologist Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz, Ph.D., they are ...

Scanning the somber men seated in front of him in a Capitol Hill hearing room last week, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold D. Cooley of North Carolina said that the committee “has never had ...