Not every animal gets the spotlight, but that doesn’t make them any less important. These underrated creatures are crucial ...

About 97 percent of the land in the state is privately owned. Meet the people helping to make it friendlier for native bugs.

With all those beautiful mums and colorful pumpkins at garden centers and farmers markets, how can we select the best and ...

Bees. Among the most hardworking and organized insects in the entire world. They are appreciated and loved by doctors for the honey, wax, propolis they produce - all of which have helped people ...

All that feed corn and all those soybeans—and those nearly 25 million hogs—produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick ...

Nature is also our first line of defence against climate change. Healthy ecosystems on land and in the sea will store carbon, ...

When you rake leaves and throw them away in the autumn, you are destroying local wildlife that use those leaves for shelter ...

Pumpkins are planted in late spring and harvested just before fall, with roughly 80% of production and use occurring during ...

Tucked away in one of the cottages at Legacy Park, Wild Nest Bird Rehab cares for orphaned and injured wild birds to return ...

Here are a few good reasons to Leave the Leaves: • Fallen leaves serve as an overwinter habitat for lizards, birds, turtles, frogs and insects. In turn, these living creatures help keep pests down and ...

The mysterious population decline of the imperiled Franklin’s bumblebee, which once flourished in a small area of northern ...

Bats, spiders, toads, and black cats seem to get all the attention around Halloween, with owls often left out of the ...