Most insects landing on the natural fly paper plant, Roridula grogonias, are in for a sticky end. However, mirid bugs that make the sticky plants their homes seem immune to the alluring adhesive. So ...

There are few things more irritating than a fly buzzing around the house. South Africans have an unconventional solution to the problem. They hang up a bunch of Roridula gorgonias leaves. Attracted to ...

The team needed to get their hands on Roridula gorgonias plants, complete with their own private mirid bug colonies, and that so far from the plant’s home in South Africa. ‘Fortunately there are a few ...

Habitat: Inhabit a wide range of climates globally. Feed on the pests of vegetable crops such as aphids and whitefly They are rather diminutive to be kings of the jungle, but two species of mirid bug ...

The widespread planting of a genetically engineered crop designed to withstand a menacing pest has had the unanticipated consequence of transforming benign bugs into agricultural predators, according ...

The plant bug family Miridae, within the true bugs (Heteroptera), comprises more than 11,000 described species that occupy virtually every terrestrial ecosystem. Phylogenetic taxonomy in this group ...

This release is available in German. There are few things more irritating than a fly buzzing around the house. South African's have an unconventional solution to the problem. They hang up a bunch of ...

Read more: Click here to read the original, longer version of this story. THEY are rather tiny to be kings of the jungle. Two species of mirid bug make sounds similar to the roars of big cats.