Gwen Pearson

Yes, they can be hard to spot - but this find in Australia highlights how little we know about creatures cruc…

The beautiful animal in the photo above is a Beaded Lacewing. While the adults are delicate and lovely, they …

This isn't a photo of the Milky Way; it's a deep, dark cave in New Zealand. And those blue things aren't star…

The beautiful medieval illustrated manuscripts of Europe were carefully inked on parchment; animal hides craf…

When Sam Heads started his new job at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) in 2009, he heard rumors of …

The CDC and the Carter Center released some great news about Dracunculiasis this Halloween season. It's not v…

Citronella candles are great for setting a mood, but they're not so great for the very thing they're advertis…

"Save the Bees!" is a common refrain these days, and it's great to see people interested in the little animal…

In an incredible international effort, 100 scientists combined their molecular, computational biology, statis…

Bees are weird. A honey bee hive is an entire insect society dedicated to stealing plant sperm (some of you c…

Worried about ticks? There are good reasons. Ixodes scapularis, the blacklegged or deer tick, transmits Lyme …

Every single one of you - 100 percent of you reading this right now - has face mites. Before you break out th…

Living on a mountain is hard for bees and flowers. It's cold. There's extreme weather. And new research has f…

For decades, scientists thought an excess of something special, a substance called royal jelly, elevated a re…

A photo has been circulating for a while that suggests our grocery stores will look like this in a world with…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an Enforcement Order this week: two brands must stop claiming caffe…

Bot flies are not generally considered festive. This is especially true if you are a reindeer, which often ha…

How many insects do you think are in your home? None? One? A hundred? Some new research suggests you need to …

This male lacewing has a glenofinger. That's not an obscure Bond villain, but an inflatable "come hither" sig…

Chill. Kissing bugs are not invading North America. They've been here for at least 12,000 years, probably lon…

At dusk in North American forests, wood thrushes ( Hylocichla mustelina) fill forests with a rising and falli…

Every few years an alarm is raised; habitat loss puts this species at risk. Will the noble pubic louse Pthiru…

Cows moo, lions roar, and pigs oink. But for many years it's been assumed that, except for the occasional sno…

All the instructions to make an animal's body are in each one of its individual cells. But how does an embryo…