26-12-2017Wyoming is home to about 40 percent of the sage grouse population in the West, though birds are found in…
23-12-2017Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, South Asia’s vulture populations underwent catastrophic declines, the vultures dying while performing their most essential…
22-12-2017A strong immune defense is vital for honey bee health and colony survival. This defense can be weakened by environmental…
22-12-2017Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) have been declining rapidly in many temperate regions of the Old World. Despite their ecological and economic…
22-12-2017The greenfinch (Carduelis chloris) is disappearing from UK gardens because of a deadly disease - with numbers more than halving…
20-12-2017Intensive agriculture is known to decrease the quality of nutrients, in the form of sugars, available in the nectar and…
20-12-2017Spring is an important period for bumble bees, as that’s when new colonies get their start. When a solitary bumble…
19-12-2017In England, the total abundance of widespread butterfly species declined by 58% on farmed land between 2000 and 2009 despite…
19-12-2017As their common name implies, the woodcocks (Scolopax rusticola) are woodland birds. They feed at night or in the evenings,…- 19-12-2017In the first long-term study of New Hampshire’s bumble bee population, researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at…
