The pursuit of fur steadily pushed the boundaries of North American settlement westward. The fur trade led to the ...

While they are not dangerous to humans, beadlet anemones have a potent weapon up their sleeves. Stinging cells known as ...

After seven decades exploring the world’s wildest places in search of exotic animals and plants, Sir David Attenborough turns ...

Can squirrels be kept as pets in India? While not clearly banned, they are wild animals and unsuitable for domestic life.

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Insects dominate more ecological niches than any other group of animals, yet some of their most impressive predators are often overlooked. One example is the group that includes lacewings and antlions ...

Whether you're mowing the lawn or hosting a cookout, the last thing you want to worry about is stinging insects such as wasps. But the truth is that wasps have a somewhat undeserved bad reputation.

A parasitic wasp castrates its moth-larvae hosts by injecting them with a ‘domesticated’ virus that causes cells in the larvae’s testes to die. Now, scientists know exactly how the virus does its ...

With winter fast approaching, a potter wasp races to complete her nursery. For her offspring, survival depends on every final detail — including the living caterpillars she captures and conceals ...

A female ichneumonid wasp, Megarhyssa perlata, drills into a tree to insert eggs on wood-boring beetle larvae hidden deep inside. (Kees Zwakhals Photo) Scott Shaw, a University of Wyoming entomology ...

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