Brace yourselves, America: Many of your favorite foods may contain bits and pieces of creatures that you probably didn’t know were there. How about some mice dung in your coffee? Maggots in your pizza ...

The squash bug carries a gut bacterium that is essential for the bug’s development into an adult. But when they hatch from their eggs, squash bug nymphs do not have the bacteria in their systems. That ...

In some minds, the only thing worse than a bug is the poop that comes out of it. However, disgusting as it might seem, bug droppings are testing out very well as an excellent fertilizer for farm and ...

Roach poop on shelves with dim sum plates, a roach on a soup ladle, food debris on a grinder, old meat, employees who didn’t wash their hands, broken and chipped equipment, missing materials and ...

Are you happy now, humans? Are you happy? It’s 2012 and the prognosis is not good. The glaciers are melting, the polar bears are drowning, the people of Vanuatu are floating around their living rooms ...

A discovery about how a common insect acquires a microbe that is essential for its growth may help in the control of an agricultural pest. The squash bug carries a gut bacterium that is essential for ...

State inspectors cited eight Sedgwick County food and lodging sites Oct. 26–Nov. 1. Inspectors recorded pest infestations, temperature breaches and poor hygiene. Failed operations usually face ...