Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

A few days ago, while dusting the furniture and curtains, I felt something quickly hide behind the curtains. My first instinct was that it was a lizard, but I ignored it and kept cleaning. When I ...

The bottom line is that hoping a cold winter will mean fewer pests is wishful thinking. “Even if the cold kills off a lot of ...

Will Pittsburgh see cicadas this year? Some parts of the country will have "straggler" cicadas this summer. Here's where they ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...

A new National Geographic special, executive-produced by James Cameron, is inviting viewers to look more closely at one of ...

Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate ...

We can call this newly discovered spider another brick—or web—in the wall. Scientists in Colombia named the new species ...

A new book follows the insects through rain and shine and highlights the unique behaviors of each bee in a colony ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

Rhododendrons are not only the state flower for our Washingtonian homeland, but they are perhaps the most widely planted shrub in our region. Now that we are in the heart of springtime in the PNW, ...

In early spring, grass is one of the first things to turn green and bring back that feeling of new life and growth.