Nearly 24,000 Australians voted for the second ABC Australian Insect of the Year, with 25.7 per cent (6,137 votes) choosing ...
Animals possess extraordinary vision, with species like eagles and hawks excelling at long-distance sight, spotting prey from ...
The Wisconsin Dragonfly Society is a statewide organization that aims to educate people on the aquatic nature of dragonflies, by assisting in citizen science activities involving the insects, ...
Animals in children's stories are often depicted as living in neat mom, dad and children family units. Examples include ...
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California’s grand insect census

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.
Don’t forget that under all that snow, there’s a whole community of insects, spiders, and other arthropods waiting for the ...
Mosquitoes have reached Iceland, a place once thought too harsh for them to survive. Climate change may play a role in this shift.
The ground-dwelling bird’s preferred grassland habitat overlaps with agricultural and energy-rich regions, putting the species’ future in the hands of private landowners. In the second installment of ...
The land connects to MassWildlife’s 1,500-acre Winchendon Springs Wildlife Management Area and DCR’s nearly 3,000-acre Ashburnham State Forest. This creates a continuous forest corridor that stretches ...
Members of a research crew on Seal Island rejoiced in the puffins’ comeback, but worried about the impacts of climate change ...
Researchers collected 275 bald eagle eggs from north central Florida in a remarkably successful effort to help save a species ...
It turns out that was no fly. Hjaltason had captured one of Iceland’s first mosquitoes—a Culiseta annulata, one of the ...