Q. Can you please tell me what my hungry visitors are? I counted six on my plant. I don’t want to pick them off if they are beneficial. Those caterpillars are from the white-lined sphinx moth, a ...

As I have the opportunity to visit with folks about the natural world, I love hearing the countless stories of the fond memories that many people recall of where they would interact with nature as ...

A research paper titled Biological Organisms as End Effectors explores the oddball approach of giving small animals jobs as grippers at the end of a robotic arm. Researchers show that pill bugs and ...

This woodlouse, also known as a pill bug or roly-poly, is demonstrating how the species can roll its armored body into a nearly impenetrable sphere when it’s threatened. This woodlouse, also known as ...