So if you’ve lived through the early ’90s you’ve heard the song Girls & Boys by Blur. It seemed like a modern song at the time, but the African bat bug got there long before the band did. In this ...

Bug experts are tracking ‘bat bugs’, small parasites that look like bed bugs but ride on bats and are increasingly showing up in peoples’ homes.University of Nebraska-Lincoln bug expert Barb Ogg said ...

There are a lot of images that come to mind when you think of bats. Long webbed wings, sharp teeth, the dark and cold caves they like to inhabit throughout much of the year. When students at the ...

With traveling on the rise, so is the risk of bringing bed bugs home. In the last few years, the number of bed bugs brought into Extension offices for identification has increased. Bat bugs are also ...

Japan is home to the world's largest — and most painful — hornet. With a wingspan of up to three inches, the Asian giant hornet can look more like a tiny flying bird. And if you're a bird — or a bee — ...

Members of a third new bat species. A colony of what is apparently a new species of Hipposideros from an abandoned gold mine in Western Kenya. (Photo courtesy of B.D. Patterson / Field Museum) ...