The 60 th anniversary of the federal Highway Beautification Act, the crowning achievement of Lady Bird Johnson, will be commemorated later this year. Although its lasting political outcome was to ...

In the last month, we wrote about how to turn piles of fallen leaves into compost to turn fall bounty into spring and summer garden glory. There’s another reason to reconsider neatly bagging every ...

But we found that this ability is limited in insects living at low elevations. Insects from mid- and high elevations could slightly increase their heat tolerance after prior exposure to heat. In ...

In their study, they propose a new framework for monitoring populations and analyzing the impact of threats that integrates all available methods for studying insects. These are: comparing diversity ...

Bats such as the common noctule consume pest insects over intensively managed arable land and thereby support sustainable agriculture. A new study led by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo ...

It may come as a surprise that just a few trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants feed 90% of moth and butterfly caterpillars ...

Insects took to the empty skies sometime between 300 million and 360 million years ago, long before birds, bats or pterosaurs. Wings allowed them to conquer new habitats and ecological niches, and ...

Likening it to providing more runways at busy airports, researchers at North Carolina State University found in a new study that adding protruding rocks to restored streams can help attract female ...

In parts of tropical Africa, where temperatures are already high and rising quickly, this could put large numbers of species at risk. Flies are the most vulnerable group. Our findings suggest that ...