As if weeds and weird weather weren't bad enough, gardeners also have to face insect pests. Here's how to deal with them. Do you garden? I do, and every year, I watch my tomatoes and lettuce get ...

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Robins don’t eat seeds, but you can attract them with insects, fruit, water, and natural spaces. Learn how to create a robin-friendly yard year-round.

He suggests the below guidelines for placement: Place the feeders approximately 12 feet from any surrounding dense landscaping like evergreen trees, bushes, and brush piles. Make sure that your feeder ...

Some insect eating birds also eat fruits, but there are variables. “There is still so much we do not know about these birds especially in a vast rainforest like Guyana’s,” Harris said.

"They're major sources of food both for insect-eating birds and in the lake," Martin Berg, a midge expert and professor of biology at Loyola University in Chicago, told the Journal Sentinel in 2024.

An 8-year-old Hammond’s flycatcher that arrived in Fairbanks surpasses the previous oldest recorded bird of its species, one that was 7 years old when biologists banded and captured her in Oregon.

My favorite time to bird-watch is when I am fly fishing on a trout stream. It is not surprising to see birds there as some have the same diet as trout — mayflies and other aquatic insects. Trout eat ...

Mole crickets are a food source for raccoons, possums, armadillos, frogs and snakes, insect-eating birds, spiders, and other soil-dwelling insects like ground beetles and assassin bugs.

LANSING — The backyard birds are back but with avian influenza being widespread, is it safe for people to fill up their wild bird feeders this spring?

Phoebes build nests from mud and grass, which they usually place in a protected area, such as under a bridge or the overhang of your eaves. These insect-eating birds won't find a typical birdhouse for ...