Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the crown jewel of the Southern Appalachians, an ancient landscape teeming with life, including what naturalist and explorer William Bartram in 1791 called ...
What initially draws my eyes to the tall, stalky plant growing near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the round, green bulge in a stem near its crown. Called ...
Metamorphosis leads to a wide range of evolutionary outcomes. The dramatic transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly ...
Cicadas from a 17-year cicada brood and shells shed by cicada nymphs sit at the base of a tree on May 29, 2024, in Park Ridge, Ill. Cicadas are of the order Hemiptera — the type of winged insects ...
Crop farmers, agronomists and others who scout crops for insect injury can gain new insight through the latest version of Field Crop Insects. First published in 2012, the latest edition became ...
The world’s deadliest animal isn’t a shark, venomous snake, or human (although we rank a close second)—it’s the mosquito. As a carrier for viral diseases like Zika, dengue, West Nile, and more, ...
The Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) and Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach have released a collaborative publication, Field Crop Insects, the latest in a series of practical and ...