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Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by releasing more mosquitoes.
A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado ...
The Washington State Department of Agriculture is seeking new bee collection volunteers as its Bee Atlas initiative enters ...
Not all native bees are as easy to keep track of as big, noisy bumblebees. An estimated 30 percent are picky foragers that use pollen from only one plant species or plant family.
One summer night three years ago, a chimney swift flitted over the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, where a ...
The insect, also known as the Lord Howe Island phasmid, is native to a remote archipelago in the Tasman Sea off Australia. The uninhabited archipelago was discovered in 1778.