There are two lookalike, large black and yellow wasps that we see in the Skiatook area, the cicada killer and the horse guard wasp. The cicada killer is 2 inches long, the horse guard wasp a third ...

On WASP-107b, the word “sandstorm” should be taken literally. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently looked at this strange, hot planet, located about 200 light-years away. JWST was ...

When most people think of pollinating insects, they mean bees and butterflies. These are the species that get all the publicity. But there are many other types of pollinators, and some of the most ...

Midsummer is the season of solitary wasps, which are called solitary because they do not build large colonies like paper wasps or yellow jackets. They are predators and prey on spiders, crickets, ...

At the foot of certain shrubs in the Mojave Desert, fluffy white motes skitter like tumbleweeds across the sand. Some are fruit: harmless, fuzzy orbs dropped by the creosote bush. Others are white ...