Research conducted over several years in Inner Mongolia has identified herbivorous insects as vital players in ecosystem ...

Create a bird-friendly yard with native trees, shrubs, grasses, and flowers that provide food, nesting material, and habitat ...

A: Robins use their sense of sight to find worms near the surface of the ground. Birds must turn their heads to turn their ...

Hummingbirds may be voracious eaters, but they don't eat 24/7. If you refill your feeder at just the right time, you'll enjoy ...

Although they look like wasps, clearwing moths are completely harmless and cannot sting. The wasp beetle takes mimicry to a ...

Out walking his beagle-dachshund in his Northeast Washington neighborhood last summer, Sam Talley, 15, first heard the ...

Too many people initially respond to seeing wasps or hornets in their garden by calling a pest control company.

“Plant a milkweed, save a monarch” is a familiar rallying cry among nature enthusiasts working to conserve this iconic ...

Some caterpillars eventually become beautiful butterflies, but when they invade your garden and leave holes in your plants, it’s hard to focus on their future. Still, they aren’t always pests; they ...

“Even during the summer lull, adult birds may occasionally stop at your feeders for some ‘fast food’ for themselves,” Robert says. “And within a couple weeks after they fledge from the nest, young ...

A loggerhead shrike does not eat every grasshopper it catches. Some are too toxic. Instead, the bird skewers them on thorns or barbed wire and waits, sometimes for two days, before returning to the ...

Turn this common kitchen staple into a safe, eco-friendly bird deterrent. Here's what you need to protect your fruit trees ...