Insects

They're usually found across our fair state about this time of year in late summer, but is a bumper crop of earwigs now ready to descend on Minnesota?

The company Pest Gnome mined data from the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as climate info to come up with their Top 25 list.

I've never seen one of these out in nature in all my time in Minnesota. Apparently, you can find them in stagnant bodies of water and they are ferocious predators.

First, it's mosquitos, then the flies and noisy cicadas. Now, in all their splendor, we have reached the annual Boxelder Bug season in South Dakota.

First, it was mosquitos, then the flies and noisy cicadas. Now, in all their splendor, we have the seasonal Boxelder bug making its annual appearance.

Bugs sure do love the spices, especially paprika and pepper.

Summer 2019 will bring more ticks to our region.

My daughter saw an ant in the house the other day. That means our brief bug-free winter has come to an end and it's time to enact the summer bug protocols.

Given the current state of farming - high costs and low prices - there seems to be a growing hunger for insects in this country; crickets in particular.

Bugs with pincers and scatter as soon as you lift a garden pot have to be among the creepiest. Here are options to get rid of them with or without chemicals.