My excitement quickly turned to disappointment when I realized that this creature was not a ladybug but, in fact, an Asian lady beetle, a multicolored insect often confused with ladybugs.

If you've ventured outdoors recently, you might have noticed an unusual amount of ladybugs — or perhaps insects that appear ...

After much research, I learned that the ladybug I found is the convergent lady beetle (Hippodamia convergens). It is the most common lady beetle species in Napa County. The pictures I took show a ...

Nature is a vast and extraordinary culmination of living organisms. When one truly delves into this realm of thought, it ...

As she peeled back the bark with her ax, she accidentally squished a small black beetle. Across western North America, in millions of acres of pine forest, the story is the same. Drive through ...

Fall, to many, is a beautiful time of year as the number of mosquitos and gnats decrease, however homeowners find unwanted bugs in or around their home. The boxelder bugs begin to gather outside ...