Dancing through the air, pausing ever so briefly on brightly colored zinnias, four giant swallowtails and numerous ...

As their name suggests, many milkweed species produce a milky-white substance that can be seen if their stem is broken.

“Ground-dwelling species include wolf and lynx spiders, and even — in parts of the West — tarantulas,” Mizejewski says.

The natural world is a multi-sensory experience if you allow it to be. Stand in a cool breeze, or find a warm patch of ...

Turn your yard into an oasis for bird-watching, one flower, shrub, and tree at a time! This go-to list of plants that attract ...

The wasps we most commonly encounter are paper wasps, named for the honeycomb-shaped paper nest they create. Because they are ...

It is not at all uncommon for me to see some fairly interesting things on my regular morning walk down to my Thinking Chair.

A morning walk turns into a close encounter with a hummingbird clearwing moth feeding on summer flowers in the garden.

A pollinator admired for its beauty and migratory endurance, monarch butterflies are being proposed for addition as an ...

Maryland locals have a secret they’ve been keeping from the rest of us – a pristine stretch of shoreline where fossil hunting, bird watching, and pure relaxation come together in perfect harmony at ...