As spring blossoms in Santa Clarita, so does an unwelcome wave of seasonal pests. Warmer temperatures bring a surge in insect ...

Experts fear that the rare and elusive species may be dying of some disease, suspected to be African swine fever.

Warmer weather often brings uninvited household pests, from bugs to mice. Before you hire an exterminator to handle a problem ...

For the first time, Guyana has given its blessing for a tour company to start bringing visitors into what’s left of Jonestown ...

Around the world, there are many animals, large and small, who build their own homes. Using a remarkable amount of creativity and instinct, they construct residences and structures designed for ...

For members of the Sani Warmi collective in Amazonian Ecuador, the day begins before sunrise. They tend to the chacra — their ...

These tiny relatives of spiders and scorpions once lived in birds’ nests. But then ... That lump on the side of this tree in the Amazon? It's packed with termites. In the rainforest, that's ...

Cacao fruit on the tree. Image by Erik Hoffner/Mongabay ... When they can, they chop up termite nests and scatter them over the tanks, providing protein to the omnivorous fish.

Spring is the time of year when my friends remember what a strange job I have , because a stripy insect has just appeared in ...

Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break ...

“Over the majority of the purple martins’ range, they are unable to nest naturally any longer ... spiders, cicadas, termites and mayflies, "When they encounter prey, they turn suddenly ...

They feed upon wood, including structural timber, wood debris, tree and shrub roots ... “Carpenter ants hollow-out wood for nests.” Ants and termites are structurally different yet commonly ...