The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South ...
Stinging caterpillars actually aren’t stinging you and injecting venom, like a wasp would," says Eric Benson, PhD, professor ...
The box tree moth, an invasive species from East Asia, poses a significant threat to boxwood shrubs in Michigan. The moth caterpillars can defoliate a boxwood within a single season and eventually ...
A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...
Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. The new species was ...
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that your hedge is actually a living, growing, plant. As architectural elements, they can seem ...
The story goes like this: moths laying eggs in hanging weblike nests that drop to the ground when they have served their ...
Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.