With help from the community, an invasive caterpillar was captured on Kauaʻi.

A community report to the Kauaʻi Invasive Species Committee last month led to the collection of a single live ramie moth ( Arcte coerula) caterpillar, the first detection of the invasive pest on ...

The first ramie moth caterpillar has been detected on Kauai, posing a threat to native plants and species. Community ...

Employees of the Tigirek Nature Reserve, led by Pavel Golyakov, director of the protected area, discovered a rare long-tailed ...

The caterpillar has a voracious appetite and threatens mamaki plants and other native species.

Paper birch, though, is so much more. According to the National Park Service, there is evidence of the trees being used by ...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...

Cities are known to shape the evolution of wildlife within them, but according to a study of European cities published in the ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...

Native trees, especially oaks and birch, are important to the reproductive success of insectivorous birds and other wildlife.

Deep freezes in 2023 and 2024 provided relief for some of Maine’s most preyed-on tree species. Will that continue in 2026?