This little perpetual-motion machine needs to eat constantly because of its high metabolism and high body temperature. If it ...

The red mite is arguably the most notorious in poultry farms," states Yahaya Were, a poultry veterinarian. It is followed ...

Birds build their nests out of everything ... So if there are no parasites or mites in their nest, they’ll reuse the same nest in another year just by removing any feathers or previous year ...

The bad news is this insect looks like a scorpion and it lives right here in BC. The good news is, this bug is very small.

A male bird perched on a Japanese walnut tree ... The paper suggested that this might be to prevent parasites such as mites from infesting the nest. Since it’s already been established that raptors ...

Keeping your yard, gutters and home free of wild rodents and bird nests will go a long way toward ensuring you never have problems with those specific mites. And keeping a clean home will chase ...

Chickens aren’t just egg-laying machines—they’re social, sensitive animals with needs that go beyond food and shelter.

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...

In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

Birds also forage for insects within Tillandsia and utilize the epiphytes as nesting sites and for nest-building materials. Ball-moss has expanded its range within Texas over the past century ...