I’m sure you know purple loosestrife, even if you don’t know its name. It’s a big, tall clumping plant bearing bright pinkish-purple flowers and it’s appearing now in your neighborhood, especially in ...

A great joy of being an entomologist is so many of the little bugs you discover are SHINY. Today's Moment of Nature Zen is a great example; this little beetle is only 1.7cm long (less than an inch), ...

The sticky, purple, tree-hanging boxes have arrived in Greater Nashua. Let’s hope they never work. Called prism traps, because their shape is the prism shape that creates rainbows when it’s made of ...

A team of Michigan Tech faculty recently defeated an unlikely invader: a pretty purple flower. DECEMBER 3, 2003 -- A team of Michigan Tech faculty recently defeated an unlikely invader: a pretty ...

Have you been wondering about those roadside wildflowers that in the last few weeks have burst into a sea of purple? Let me introduce you to purple loosestrife, also known as lythrum salicaria. Do not ...

BOYNE CITY — The beetles are coming to Boyne City — not the well-know musical group, but rather insects that will eat an invasive plant. At its most recent regular meeting last week, the Boyne City ...

If there’s one thing we can’t get enough of at Nerdist, it’s bugs. Not in a Snowpiercer kind of way, though. Rather, we like them as reminders of how weird and wonderful all of Earth’s little, ...

Six years ago, a summertime glimpse of the Halfway Creek wetlands on Brice Prairie revealed a vista of stunning violet. The cause was purple loosestrife, a plant native to Eurasia that spread with ...

Purple loosestrife — chances are you’ve seen it growing along the roads, and you may even have thought its purple spires were a thing of beauty. SUNY Potsdam Professor Dr. Jessica Rogers is passionate ...