Keeping bird feeders up all winter helps birds survive cold months and lets you enjoy watching them year-round. Fill feeders ...

Learn which caterpillars sting, their venom effects, and how to avoid painful encounters in forests, parks, and backyards.

Monarch butterflies are one of North America's most iconic pollinators, known for their striking, easily recognizable ...

The weirdest-looking moths on Earth are so strange, they look like they flew straight out of a vivid dream — or a nightmare.

Today’s story is about something that has already happened, and something else that might happen. Usually I focus in on one ...

Good numbers of siskins, grosbeaks, and other favorites could be headed your way, according to the latest edition of the ...

Salt on the wind, reeds rustling, and a slim grey shape cutting low over the marsh. Eyewitnesses paused, then reached for binoculars. For 10 days, a ...

The main factor that determines a butterfly is its clubbed antennae. Unlike those of moths, butterfly antennae consist of a long thread with a bead at the end. However, this can be pretty hard to see ...

Birds that end up far from home, like the New York common cuckoo, are known as “vagrants.” They’re fairly common during ...

A recent Journal of Orthoptera Research article describes two newly identified katydid species endemic to the southern ...

Species evolve, mimic, or camouflage to escape from predators. One such species is the White-necked Jacobins (Florisuga mellivora), a neotropical hummingbird species. A recent discovery by a group of ...

From the bold Blue Jay repping Canada’s team to an *opp* like the Baltimore Oriole, meet the feathered characters that bring ...