If you are bitten by a large, black spider in Australia, the medical advice is to treat is as an emergency. However, not all ...

Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing ...

Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," ...

Unique, colorful, musical and social, evening and pine grosbeaks are wild birds that tend to be wintertime visitors that we ...

Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to ...

Are you looking to invite some furry and feathered friends into your Minnesota backyard? It’s a rewarding endeavor that also ...

Not many people appreciate mice. And I’ll be the first to step forward to say that some of their habits are not endearing.

Now is the time of year when we savor the last warm embraces of the sun and think ahead to the dreary days of winter lying in wait to chill our hands and feet. We grumble and complain and swear ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches, love is a-buzz at the Minnesota Zoo. This year, people can give a gift as unique as the nearly ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

A new species of fungi which infects spiders and turns them into The Last of Us-style “zombies” has been discovered in Irish caves. The newly-described fungus has drawn “normally reclusive ...

They were once virtually eradicated in the developed world years ago, but the Center for Invasive Species ... here in ...