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Pittsburghers may notice more stinging insects around the city.
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Millions of insects will make their way through Pittsburgh over the next five years under a renewed contract between the Carnegie Museum of Natural…
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Bed bugs are equal opportunity infesters. They don’t discriminate who they’ll bite based on any socioeconomic or demographic factors. With students…
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In the summer of 2014, a Pennsylvania game commission officer named Frank Strathmeyer spotted a bug he’d never seen before in Berks County. It was about…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced $17.5 million in emergency funding to fight the spread of the spotted lanternfly in Pennsylvania.The…
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Gnats!The Philadelphia police department and other agencies in the suburbs were kept busy with calls reporting swarms of gnats which, experts say, are…
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An elderly woman in Pittsburgh’s East End has contracted West Nile Virus, the first reported case in Allegheny County since 2015.Allegheny County Health…
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To help us tell stories about how weather and climate change are affecting our region, The Allegheny Front has partnered with iSeeChange—an online climate…
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The cicadas are back after 17 years underground, and cicada mania is in full swing.“They’re on a timer so they all come out at once,” said Robert…
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They’re almost here. Actually, the insects are already here.That’s if you count the immature cicada nymphs lurking just a foot below the ground, as they…