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People asked to avoid swarms of stinging insects as truck hauling 250 million bees rolls over near the Canadian border.

Scientists don’t know what caused the majority of the deaths

Sprat fishing has disrupted the food chain and diverted humpback, minke and fin whales as well as dolphins

Another cicada invasion is here. The large Brood XIV, which emerges every 17 years, is making for a spectacular natural event as billions of periodical cicadas emerge across parts of the Eastern U.S., including in Georgia, southern Ohio, Kentucky, Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and Long Island, New York.

The rescued moths can grow as large as a human hand

Two moths the size of a hand, patterned in brown and pink around four translucent sections like window panes, mate for hours hanging from a line alongside cocoons like the ones they emerged from just hours earlier

The RHS has teamed up with the RSPB for the first time to create a show garden focused on the birds at Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.

Butterfly Conservation is calling on the public’s help to track the fortunes of the rare mountain ringlet.

Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster film ‘provided justification for’ anti-shark crackdowns, but also inspired new enthusiasm for shark conservation

Researchers have found that lesser known nocturnal pollinators’ roles are just as important to help keep food on our tables

Other lives: Botanist whose fascination with blue-green algae led to new methods of testing river water quality