Ants may also come inside in search of water, particularly when the weather is hot. Some species prefer to build their nests ...

During the survey, the team documented around 60 species of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera); 30 species of dragonflies ...

Most fields held a few of them and a couple of fields had several hundred. Sloughs, too, were crowded with them. There they ...

Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. It is one of ...

With its fiery colours and trilling call that echoes through the bush, the crested barbet is a bold little bird that looks ...

Another Queensland local found her puppy dead on top of a fire ant nest, ABC reported. On Monday, the Queensland state government announced funding for fire ant suppression measures worth 24 ...

Among his more extraordinary finds include the trap-jaw ant. He collected this species while on a trip to Costa Rica with other entomologists to focus on ants that build nests out of their own body.

Red-cockaded woodpeckers have been the focus of conservation efforts, including habitat restoration, artificial nest box ...

Misunderstood and often feared, insects play a crucial role in nature – something that 31-year-old Wendy Zhang hopes to ...

“We had no idea about the fire ants when we first moved in – we saw ant nests but just thought they were normal ants.” Ms Britton, who is suffering from breast cancer, said she was bitten ...