Hawaii’s Invertebrates Dwindling Fast
Hawaii was once known for its diversity in colorful plants and assorted wildlife. However, in recent decades researchers have noted extreme losses and have even deemed the islands the “extinction...
Insecticides Alter Spiders’ Personalities and Behaviors
Consume the same amount of alcohol as your friend, and you may notice that you’re acting a little loopier than them, or vice versa. This is the idea that urged...
TWS Conference: Wolf Capital of the World
A little more than 10 years ago, if someone had told Volker Beckmann that the new 10-story high mural of a wolf’s face he helped choose to be painted in...
PAID AD
Flowers Aid in Spreading Parasites to Bees
Don’t be deceived by the vibrant colors and sweet-smelling petals. Flowers can be a host for parasites that are harmful to bees — if there aren’t enough of them planted,...
Inbreeding Not to Blame for Bighorn Sheep Decline
Catherine Driscoll was hiking with her father in the Never Summer Mountain Range of the Rocky Mountains. They were collecting bighorn sheep’s fecal pellet samples to study their genetic variation,...
Fire Ants Limit Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Survival
Small but dangerous to insectivores, invasive red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) could be negatively impacting the brood survival of critically endangered Attwater’s prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), according to...
PAID AD
Bats Need Natural Habitat for Food Reservoirs
Bats eat so many insects that surround crops during the summer that they can act as natural pesticides for farmers, but researchers recently examined what bats consume later in those...
Member Drives Launch of Wildlife Biology Major at BSU
Bemidji State University, a wooded, lake-side campus, sits amidst mixed deciduous hardwood forests of Minnesota, boreal forest, and prairies and aspen park land, which students take advantage of for snowmobiling,...
Researchers Study Endangered Owl’s Nesting Sites
There’s very little known about great gray owls (Strix nebulosa) besides the fact that they’ve been endangered in California since 1980. Previous studies have pointed to the impact of nest...
