With proper construction and maintenance, backyard ponds can support valuable wildlife habitat and create a personal outdoor ...

One of the most impactful ways to support wildlife in your garden is to create a pond. Ponds provide a valuable source of ...

The sight of a drooping flower head is often all it takes to prod us to unravel the hose and turn on the spigot. We’re less attuned to the water preferences and needs of birds and insects, though, and ...

PEQUEA, Pa. (WHTM) — Pennsylvania creeks are popular for wading, inner tubing, kayaking, and fishing. But while you’re floating along with the current, have you ever thought about what might be living ...

In spring and most of summer, I survey dragonflies and damselflies flying above the water and vegetation at a local pond for a statewide census program. My most recent visit there, however, was not to ...

I grew up in a small town located on the banks of the Mississippi River. Being so close to water, aquatic insects were commonplace. At times, they were actually a nuisance. I remember the year they ...

Northumbria University, Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The first swallows have made landfall in the UK, fanning out over the greening landscape. The early arrivals, ...

Researchers have found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems, making them more vulnerable to disruptions to the links between land and ...

On a pond shore at a wildlife refuge in southeast Boise, beside the Idaho Shakespeare Festival grounds, recent Timberline High School graduate Ben Gallafent snagged the catch of the day. Researchers ...