Animals all face the same challenges: finding enough to eat and surviving long enough to pass on their genes. While there are endless ways Nature has addressed these challenges, it sometimes arrives ...

Just as humans rely on their eyes to make precise movements with their hands, hummingbird hawk-moths use continuous visual feedback to precisely position their proboscis in the center of flowers. When ...

Juvenile hummingbirds began leaving their nests about two weeks ago, so activity at my nectar feeders has surged. Where a month ago, I had four or five hummers coming to my feeders, that number has ...

It is the middle of a warm summer day, the whine of a lawn mower is a counterpoint to the incessant buzz and hum of endless hordes of bees rising and falling toward the phlox, bee balm, Queen Anne's ...

Our region is justly noted for its varied laurel and rhododendron species. For most of us, year in and year out, the commonest and largest of these tends to be rosebay rhododendron. You don't have to ...

The beautiful purple emperor butterfly and a hummingbird hawk moth were spotted in the very warm temperatures in Hardwick Hall’s herb garden. The purple emperor is one of Britain's largest butterflies ...