The increase in temperature across the country could see disease-carrying mosquitoes arrive in NZ.
Warm, damp weather is tipped to provide ideal breeding conditions for flies, mosquitoes and other bugs.
Male mason wasps use sharp genital spines to attack predatory tree frogs, the study found.
New NIWA research looks at how different types of street lights impact the lives of insects.
The bud-galling wasp would be used to control the spread of an invasive acacia shrub.
A North Carolina pest control company, The Pest Informer, offers more than $3,000 to free 100 cockroaches in your house
Dr Phil Sirvid used to be terrified of spiders - but now "loves them deeply and slightly madly".
Cicada season normally happens from December through to about March.
If the threat of a highly infectious new COVID-19 variant doesn't scare you, perhaps this will.
