An Ashland reader recently noticed some curious little, almost lantern-like attachment appearing on her spruce. At first glance, these little cocoons looked like little lanterns in her evergreen.

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture on Wednesday. The glowing "wings" ...

A few weeks ago, I was exploring a woodland near Springfield and ran across a fuzzy cluster of feeding insects. It was slightly out of reach, congregated in a lower limb of a young black walnut tree ...

There are a lot of fuzzy little caterpillars wandering around my woods these days. Not just woolly bears, but tussock moth caterpillars and fall web worms adorned with tufts of hair of various and ...

Your mom may have told you to "be home by dinnertime" as a child, but that hour can vary for everyone, from an early bird special at 4:30 p.m. all the way to 10 p.m. dinner reservations. Many people ...

There are several caterpillar species whose populations tend to peak about this time of year. While some, such as Monarchs, are celebrated and others are oohed and ahhed over like the silk worms, ...

Mary Marlowe Leverette is one of the industry’s most highly regarded housekeeping and fabric care experts, sharing her knowledge on efficient housekeeping and textile conservation. She is also a ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

It’s tempting to eat all day long — starting with breakfast in the morning and ending with a snack late at night.But that eating pattern has come under scrutiny for its negative impact on weight loss ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Many people pay close attention to what’s on their ...

A monarch butterfly caterpillar feeds on a milkweed plant. Discover nature this week with Missouri's caterpillars. The bright wings of butterflies catch your eyes, and many people notice. But few ...