Summer means spending as much time as possible outdoors. Whether you have a postage-stamp yard in the city or acreage out in the country, knowing which plants and animals share your world can be a ...

Sign up to receive the Future Tense newsletter every other Saturday. For the first few days, I ignored the teeny bugs crawling around my bathroom window sill at night ...

You're in your garden and notice a beautiful, new-to-you flower that has popped up somewhere unexpected — pull it or leave it? Or perhaps an unfamiliar garden pest has ravaged your tomato plants. Or ...

Iowa State's Arti Singh is leading a project that builds on the Pest-ID web-based tool that helps farmers across Iowa and around the world identify and manage crop threats. Iowa State ...

A free mobile app called TX Invasives is now available from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin for identifying harmful non-native plant, insect and other ...

For this summer’s road trips, skip the license plate game and 100th viewing of “National Lampoon’s Vacation” and try a new diversion we’ll call Name That Splat. All you need is a windshield, some ...

TO THE untrained ear, the chirping noises made by many small creatures or insects sound very similar. Now there is a new breed of app that will allow anyone with a smartphone to identify the unique ...

Part of Northern Territory folklore, flocks of dragonflies are viewed as a sign the dry season is about to begin. Dragonfly expert Professor Jenny Davis from Charles Darwin University created the app ...

A free mobile app called TX Invasives is now available from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin for identifying harmful non-native plant, insect and other ...