A groundbreaking study suggests Earth may host up to 20.3 million insect species, significantly more than the previously ...

Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...

While bees and butterflies attract a lot of the buzz, moths are important pollinators, too, as well as an important food ...

Many plants need pollen from another plant of the same species in order to reproduce, but they don’t have legs so they can’t simply walk around looking for a mate. As a result, many of them rely on ...

Pennsylvania is modifying abandoned mines to create colder habitats, helping bat populations recover from fungus.

Belonging to the insect family Lampyridae, which is very apt given the insect is certainly “lamp-like” for its luminescent ...

We gardeners understand the concept of separating. We routinely separate insects in our garden into “good” and “bad” columns.

Dawn Strasser recently retired from the Cincinnati Zoo after a 45-year career caring for over 600 baby animals, including ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

There are some hydrophilid beetles that make their homes in fresh animal waste, decaying vegetation, or humus-rich soil GREAT ...

Intensive farming has all but destroyed England’s ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there’s money in protecting nature ...

One of the new species is a tiny sac fungus that lives on the bark of pine branches, the other a goosefoot downy mildew, an ...