When winter is upon us, we are aware of our shorter days and colder temperatures. Animals have their own adaptations for ...

Do you have questions about birds, bugs, bees, butterflies or other wildlife? Send your questions to Wild Things and we will try to find the answers. “It moved quickly along the pondweed – it appeared ...

The Pará state, located in the northern region of Brazil, is the second largest state in territorial extension with an area of 1,247,954 km 2 spread over 144 municipalities. The population of the ...

One summer day many years ago, I was on a birdwatching trip. We had spent the morning hours observing Least Bitterns, Yellow-billed Cuckoos, and Golden-winged Warblers. As the sun was getting hotter, ...

Flesh-eating screwworm larvae poised to invade the US have snuck into Maryland via the flesh of a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, upping anxiety about the ghastly—and economically ...

An extremely rare dragonfly, a federally endangered species known as a male Hine’s emerald dragonfly, was recently discovered ...

At this time in August there are insects everywhere outside. But most, although certainly not all, of them get ignored because people generally don’t like insects. There are some, however, that people ...

This week, we’re diving into the nitty-gritty of the life histories of dragonflies and damselflies (members of the taxonomic order Odonata) with a photo that perfectly conveys the mating process used ...

Only a few creatures that we know today also lived when dinosaurs roamed the planet. Dragonflies are one of them – in fact, they existed 100 million years before the dinosaurs. Our ancient atmosphere ...

An estimated 32,000 invasive water chestnut plants (Trapa natans) were pulled from the Concord River along the Carlisle and Bedford shores during a successful water chestnut pulling event on July 19.

Brookfield Zoo joined the Lincoln Park Zoo and Shedd Aquarium in raising a total of 90 mudbugs, which were recently released in the DuPage County Forest Preserve District. The mudbugs create burrows ...