pests
The Best Tried-and-True Ways to Kill Bugs in Your House
Suffering from ants, fruit flies, roaches, or worse? Our editors swear by these gadgets for banishing bugs from your home.
Scientists Use Gene Editing to Create Mutant Cockroaches in Breakthrough
Researchers used CRISPR on cockroaches in a first that opens the door to future gene-editing research on insects.
These Invincible 'Super Rats' Are Genetically Resistant to Poison
VICE Japan met up with a handful of experts studying super rats—genetically mutated rodents humans can't seem to kill.
The White House Is Infested with Roaches and Ants
Melania's Christmas decorations aren't the only terrifying thing going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Does Finding a Roach Mean My Place is Gross?
Seeing a bug does mean there are likely more—a lot more.
How Plants Turn Chill Caterpillars Into Rampaging Cannibals
"It often starts with one caterpillar biting another one in the rear."
We Asked People About Jakarta's 'Cash-For-Rats' Extermination Plan
The Jakarta government has proposed a plan to pay Rp 20,000 for every rat taken off the streets: Dead or alive. What could possibly go wrong?
Learn to Live with Rats, Because You Already Do
Rats eat 42 billion tons of our food each year worldwide and cost the United States an estimated $19 billion annually. They have earned our fear but deserve our respect.
Researchers Sequenced the Bed Bug's Genome, Hope to Find Its Weak Spots
Their findings could help others come up with more effective pesticides.
What the Locust Plague in Argentina Looks Like
Farmers are fighting back against the biggest influx in 60 years.
Behold: The Cockroach Internet of Shit and Gut Bacteria
A new study tracks the sources of cockroach pheromones to, well, you know.