Insects don’t have lungs. Their blood-like hemolymph doesn’t carry oxygen. Instead, they take in oxygen through a row of ...

Keeping the house mouse-free feels like a full-time job in winter. We asked a rodent expert about the best ways to keep them ...

Each year around Halloween, the northern shrike lands in our region to spend the winter. A songbird slightly smaller than a ...

Among the winners of the Close Up Photographer of the Year Awards 2025 was a bear in the forest, two stag beetles in an epic ...

Other highlights included a spiny mouse with stiff guard hairs like a hedgehog’s spines and an “amphibious,” insect-eating mouse with webbed feet that belongs to one of the rarest orders of ...

Mouse lemurs sleep aloft during the day and forage at night for insects, fruit, flowers, and other plants. These adaptable primates store fat in their tails and hind legs, burning it when forage ...

Mouse droppings on floor around hot water heater ... propped open without a screened door allowing possible entrance for insects and rodents. Some floor areas not clean, primarily under and ...

The omnivorous deer mouse uses its sharp incisors to gnaw through the hard coats and seeds and the chitinous exoskeleton of beetles. Small invertebrates such as insects, earthworms, and snails form an ...

The program proved successful, with Lord Howe Island declared rat- and mouse-free by late 2019. This milestone paved the way for the reintroduction of the Lord Howe Island stick insect to its ...