On a subzero morning, I clip into skis and head out across my meadow, gliding between desiccated husks of sundial lupine ...

There are more than 550 species of bee native to North Carolina and chances are many of them make their home in your garden ...

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

Here's how to identify the insects eating your garden leaves by the evidence they leave behind. If leafcutter bees are ...

Wasps commonly nest in a wide variety of sites, including on and inside buildings, in trees and in the ground. Wasps will generally not bother people when their nests are not near human activity. When ...

Bumble bees and yellowjacket wasps typically nest in the ground (though you might see some nesting in trees or buildings). To locate the perfect nest site, both species search for abandoned rodent ...

We have 20,000 species of bees in the world ... they kind of provide a place where bees that nest in the ground can access the soil surface around them. So they help to provide nesting habitat ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Bella Rubietta has devoted dozens of hours to helping a bug so uncommon she has yet to see it. The 14-year-old Prior Lake resident wrote a children’s book and brochures on the topic, held ...

After darkening the skies of North America for 20,000 years, the passenger pigeon was hunted to extinction. It changed our ...

The Big Farmland Bird Count is an annual event that encourages farmers and land managers to record the bird species and numbers on their farms.

A HUNGRY flock of sheep will help boost biodiversity and protect one of the county’s last coastal grasslands as they graze at Shoebury Ranges ...