Bird populations here and elsewhere have been halved during our lifetimes, with a 40% decline in the last decade alone.

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Carpenter bees bore round holes into wood siding and rails. Here's how to identify them and keep them from doing serious ...

When winter comes, honeybees form a ball deep in their hive to regulate the hive temperature. This means they stay close ...

There are a handful of plants that add visual appeal to your landscape while keeping bees at bay. Some include peppermint, ...

Aucklanders who feel like they have been dealing with more wasps are not imagining it. An ecology professor said a long, dry ...

Barn swallows are migrating back to Central Texas, and while they provide an ecological service by eating insects, their mud ...

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Wooden boxes seen around farms in the Central Valley contain the insects that are vital to crop pollination and production.

They work as hard as bees to pollinate our plants, often look and sound like bees but have no sting – yet hoverflies remain the unsung heroes of our gardens.

Velvet ants have enormous stingers ― half their body length ― and the research paper focused on the full defense system of ...

Infection with Australian bat lyssavirus is serious but extraordinarily rare, and there are effective treatments. So there’s ...