Pets & Animals › Insects

All topics

Pets & Animals

Insects

Bees and Wasps Bugs Butterflies and Moths Dragonflies Non-Poisonous Spiders Other Insects

Popular New Buzzing

27% 2 5 BardofEly

Butterflies and Moths

Recycled plastic water bottles help Monarch Butterfly conservation

Monarch butterflies face many dangers today but many people are doing what they can to help them. Growing Milkweed to feed the caterpillars is one of the best ways.

22% 4 2 Digby_Adams

Butterflies and Moths

Cape May, NJ Monarch Butterfly Tagging and Migration

Each year millions of monarch butterflies call Cape May, NJ home for a few days, as part of their 2,000-mile migration from Canada to Mexico. Eco-tourists won't want to miss this.

21% 2 3 DerdriuMarriner

Bees and Wasps

Rudolf Steiner: The Bee Lectures of 1923 and Biodynamic Predictions of Colony Collapse Disorder

Not all pain sufferers fear bee venom. Not all sweets seekers like honey. But everyone loses by ignoring Rudolf Steiner's predictions in 1923 of massive bee deaths from 1973 on.

19% 0 3 DerdriuMarriner

Butterflies and Moths

Lavender Flowered Favorites of Cabbage Whites: Creeping Thistle, English Lavender, New England Aster

Old World natives, cabbage white butterflies (Pieris rapae) now flit abundantly in the New World with cosmopolitan nectar favorites of one New World and two Old World natives.

16% 0 2 DerdriuMarriner

Butterflies and Moths

Violet Tinted Vista of Scarce Swallowtail Butterflies: Butterfly Bushes, English Lavender, Lilacs

Scarce swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius), an Old World native butterfly, favors violet-tinted flowers, especially butterfly bush, English lavender, and lilacs.

14% 0 3 Laura

Bees and Wasps

Are Bees Linked to the Survival of the Human Race (Video)

Bees are dying, and studies have linked the survival of the human race to this insect. Two studies generated strong evidence that pesticides are destroying the bee colonies.

10% 0 2 DerdriuMarriner

Bees and Wasps

Colony Collapse Disorder and Common Western Honeybees (Apis mellifera) in Europe and North America

Abandoning honey, larvae, and queen does not seem bee-like. But it is happening in hives diagnosed with colony collapse disorder. Research so far yields no definitive action plans.

9% 0 2 roberrific

Bees and Wasps

Beekeeping and Harvesting the Honey Crop in Southeastern Ontario

Here are images and anecdotes related to my time as a commercial beekeeping assistant helping harvest clover honey in southeastern Ontario, Canada,

9% 0 2 BardofEly

Bugs

Nothing to get bugged about

Many people hate insects of all kinds. They call them bugs and swat them, spray them or squash them. Bugs are a specific type of insect though.

6% 0 1 SDKP

Insects

Kill the Fire Ant Queen

When you have an infestation of fire ants, there is only one way to successfully conquer it - kill the queen of the colony. Here's how to do it.

5% 0 1 SDKP

Insects

Killing Wasps Without Using Poison

If you hate the idea of using poison sprays, there is a way to kill wasps without using any poisons whatsoever.

more ...