With 11,000 species of insects known in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, how do you write a guide to them? Jim and Leslie ...

Second, when I replaced the plants, I chose a wide variety of native species. Later, I found out that having a variety of ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...

Tom Wassmer points at a malaise trap, which is used to collect samples of flying insects for research. A biology professor at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan, Wassmer is among many ...

"Our population is recovering." Experts celebrate recovery of unique creature from brink of extinction: 'Proved to be quite ...

When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects that ...

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet ...

DNA from a new Bartonella bacterium has been detected in sand flies in the Brazilian Amazon, similar to the strains that ...

Safeguarding your trees against pests is important to their health and longevity. Invasive species can wreak havoc by defoliating or infecting trees, and left untreated, can lead to loss of limbs and ...

Environmentalists worry about pollinating species in the pivotal desert borderland as more tall barriers are planned by the U ...

"In Search of Thoreau's Flowers," on view at the Gregg Museum through January, takes visitors on a walk around Walden Pond.