The common buckeye Glenn’s Creek Greenway at UNC Asheville, near the intersection of WT Weaver Boulevard and Barnard Avenue ...

When you think of a butterfly garden, you probably picture a flowerbed of big, bright blooms, a few butterflies and sunshine. What happens when you get down to plant level and look a little closer?

A record number of one of the UK's rarest butterflies has been found at a nature site. More than double the number of silk shelters were found at Lydlinch Common this year compared to last year, ...

Every beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar, and caterpillars have to eat. This may surprise you, but the average caterpillar has a very restrictive diet, feeding on only a few plants, and some ...

Blue porterweed (Stachytarpheta cayennensis) is part of the Verbenaceae family. The bright green leaves have a quilt-like appearance and a toothed leaf margin. Small deep blue to purple flowers appear ...

DEAR JOAN: A female house finch, I believe, that has been visiting our backyard feeders for several days in a row has a very deformed beak. It appears that her lower beak is grossly long and her upper ...

That experience proved invaluable on a Chronicle assignment involving a missing juvenile ball python at a local EaDo nightclub. Assistant general manager Javi Ramirez discovered the snake weeks later, ...

DEAR JOAN: A female house finch, I believe, that has been visiting our backyard feeders for several days in a row, has a very deformed beak. It appears that her lower beak is grossly long and her ...

Heavy equipment giants Caterpillar have signed an agreement with Vale that will see the company dramatically expand its fleet of autonomous haul trucks deployed at iron ore operations in the Carajás ...

Dec 2 (Reuters) - Bobcat sued construction equipment rival Caterpillar (CAT.N), opens new tab in Texas federal court and at a U.S. trade tribunal on Tuesday, alleging that technology in many of ...