About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

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 ...

Homeowners can support insect populations by creating pollinator habitats in their yards, even small changes like planting a tree can help.

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, ...

The sight and sound of a bumblebee or a honey bee buzzing from flower to flower in an alpine meadow or a roadside planting is calming to many, yet it invokes outright panic in others. This happens ...

But these bees can effortlessly access an adaptation to keep flying even when the air gets thin. Researchers originally theorized that the insects would need to beat their wings faster to keep ...

Okay, so not everybody enjoys sharing their yard with tenants of a creepy-crawly nature. They don't communicate like dogs ...

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 ...