Bees are in trouble, seeing population declines and colony loss. Now, a lab that houses some of the world’s foremost research ...

August and September are the months of insects in Lancaster County. And I have been delighted to experience many insects, ...

UPMC Family Hospice staff and program volunteers hosted a remembrance event for community members to honor loved ones who ...

The faunal list is primarily the result of 15 years and ten months of sampling (September 2007 to July 2023) of adult butterflies by the first author, mainly using entomological nets, but in some ...

WJAC provides news, weather and sports information for Johnstown, Altoona, State College and DuBois, Pennsylvania. Our ...

Explore the Butterfly Trail at Bald Eagle State Park in central Pennsylvania—an easy hike through meadows that ends at a beach for summer swimming.

Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now ...

The lights on the bridge connecting Lancaster and York Counties have attracted thousands of mayflies and impacted visibility in the past, authorities said.

More than a decade after the spotted lanternfly landed in Berks County, Pa. researchers are learning more about what eats ...

Two new habitats for butterflies are now in Patrick County. Butterflies can visit the newly planted Monarch Waystation and ...

The third week of June has been designated National Pollinator Week by the Pollinator Partnership (pollinator.org). Though ...

Earlier in the spring, at a local plant sale, I succumbed to another “let’s take a chance” pick — the marigold variety “Lemon Gem,” with small, single flowers amid lacy foliage. This plant, which ...