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Cornell innovation allows growers to use corn seed planting machines to plant strips of milkweed or wildflowers next to their fields.

The exhibition, “Extinct and Endangered,” opens June 22 in New York City and is based on the macrophotography of renowned artist Levon Biss.

Solar energy developers and farmers need land to operate, and a Cornell research project aims to demonstrate how co-locating solar arrays on farmland can be an environmentally friendly way to benefit both the renewable energy and agriculture industries.

That’s because a diet consisting solely of aphids lacks an essential nutrient –sterols, like cholesterol – which all male animals need to make sperm, hormones, and to maintain cell health. As a result, farm-friendly aphid-eating ladybugs...

That one day is Oct. 19, when the Department of Entomology will host Insectapalooza – an annual extravaganza that aims to take the “creepy” out of “creepy-crawly.” From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., visitors can interact with more than 150 species of live...