Of the many insect species that visit a vegetable garden, a small fraction are pests. Slugs, aphids, cabbage loopers, and other plant pests nibble holes into leaves, burrow into root crops, and harm ...

If bats are in your yard, it means your ecosystem is healthy, and you can attract them with their favorite foods and ...

Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

Setting up bird feeders in your garden is not just a spiritual way to serve birds, but also a strategy to deal with those pesky pests.

This summer has been a good year for viewing lightning bugs or fireflies because of several weather conditions. Here's what ...

Contrary to popular opinion, bats are not winged mice; in fact, they aren’t rodents at all but members of the taxonomic order Chiroptera (meaning hand-wing). Bats are unique in that they are the only ...

A man is fighting for his life in hospital after he was bitten by a bat in northern NSW and contracted a life-threatening illness.

The lightning bug life cycle According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are nearly 170 different species of fireflies in the country.

(WKBN) – Whether you call them lightning bugs or fireflies (yes, they are the same thing), many of us enjoy watching the insects light up the evening and nighttime air. But there are a few reasons why ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Scientists in China's Yunnan province have discovered 20 new viruses in bats, including two closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses. Th ...