I was settling in to answer a few emails when I heard, “Dad, some huge bug just flew into the lamp shade!” As the designated bug catch-and-releaser, I pressed into action. A western conifer seed bug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It smelled like Christmas inside the Silvaseed extractory Tuesday morning as machines whirred meticulously to remove millions of ...

MY YARD IS FULL of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

Eww, that smell. There is only one bug that makes that unique and pungent piney smell. Now appearing in homes and offices throughout Montana, the western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis) ...

Over the past several years, the invasive brown marmorated stink bug has found hospitable conditions in our houses, which are appealingly warm during Western Washington’s cold, wet winters. They’re a ...

I wandered deep into a spruce fir forest, far from a road, not far from a small lake, and sat down in the shadows to see what would happen. In just a few minutes, a party broke out -- a dinner party.

My house is being invaded. It happens to some extent in fall of most years, but this is the most intense we have experienced, and on the first day of February we are still heaving cadavers and actives ...

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It smelled like Christmas inside the Silvaseed extractory Tuesday morning, Dec. 2, as machines whirred meticulously to remove millions of conifer seeds from cones and sort them into large barrels.