It's been another year of both discouraging and rewarding results. Here are some lessons I've learned, especially when it ...

When summer rolls around, this decreasingly young man’s fancy inevitably turns to bugs. This mainly means butterflies here in mid-July, followed by the many ticks crawling up my legs after a day in ...

Illinois Farm Bureau is hosting Nutrient Stewardship Field Days this summer for farmers and industry partners to collaborate ...

A world-first study reveals an acoustic interaction between plants and insects. In the study, the team focused on female ...

There are nearly 20,000 butterfly species in the world today. About 750 species inhabit the U.S. alone. With so many butterflies in the world, one would think they would band together to improve their ...

Two managers at a San Diego construction project were trying to boost the morale of workers in the middle of the COVID pandemic. In this StoryCorps, hear how some monarch butterflies helped.

The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times.

Along the 35-mile stretch between Sonora and Ozona, a “river of monarchs” was flying across the highway at windshield height. Maresh veered a bit in an attempt to miss one butterfly and ended up ...

Among the best-known environmental work happening at the biological station is the captive rearing experts for the Great Lakes Piping Plover Conservation Team. The effort has been instrumental over ...

Discover the question mark butterfly as it emerges in forests, showcasing vivid colors, unique camouflage and a seasonal life ...

The California Academy of Sciences is leading an effort to bring back the Xerces blue butterfly, which went extinct around 1941 because of human development in San Francisco. Researchers are ...

Monarch butterfly. Image via Unsplash The monarch migration presents scientists with a profound mystery: how do butterflies navigate with pinpoint accuracy to specific destinations they’ve never seen?