Tennessee is home to over a thousand insects, but a few are quite sizable. Discover the biggest insects that live in the ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Beautiful but bold, the median wasp builds large hanging nests under eaves, trees, and even balconies. Get a close-up look—at a safe distance—at one of Europe’s more aggressive wasp species.

Until now, the kultarr was thought to be a single widespread species, ranging from central New South Wales to the Carnarvon ...

Australia is home to more than 60 species of carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae. Almost a quarter of those have ...

Bug zappers are marketed to reduce the mosquito population, making outdoor spaces more usable during nighttime. If the bugs are attracted to the zapper’s light, they won’t bother you, who is a safe ...

A large, seasonal fly with a particularly painful bite is out and about again for the summer in Massachusetts.

Rattlesnakes, bison, spiders and ticks are among the deadliest animals in Kansas highlighted in an entry on the WorldAtlas ...

A new study has looked into this size misestimation phenomenon a little further, asking participants to estimate the size of ...

A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is also killing beneficial ...

It’s the last day of June and I’m standing under the overhang on my back deck protected from the last drips of a rainstorm.

All but two House Republicans voted this afternoon to pass the party’s sprawling bill to extend tax cuts and slash social ...