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Cicada killer wasps paralyze annual cicadas with a sting & feed them to their young. Not normally a threat to humans, they like warm loose soil & emerge in July ...
KPNX-TV Phoenix. Arizona’s solar farms are forcing relocation of burrowing owls. Posted: June 17, 2025 | Last updated: June 17, 2025. Conservation often involves some give and take.
There was a sharp decline in the share of Canadians buying U.S. homes in Q1 2025 as the Trump administration's trade disputes took hold.
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Vegetable gardeners everywhere look forward to harvesting tomatoes each summer. But one pest that can ruin the fruits of your labor (literally) is the tomato hornworm. The caterpillars feast on ...
A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...
At Umatilla’s former chemical depot, scientists band baby burrowing owls nesting in old juice barrels, part of a yearslong effort to track their migration and ancestry. June 27, 2025.
News; Pacific NW; Cool critters: Happy Father’s Day to our region’s underground owl dads Sun., June 15, 2025 A tiny burrowing owl with a big attitude near Othello, Wash. Unlike other owl ...
Edward John Klain, 90, was born on Sept. 28, 1934, to Ferdinand and Marie Klain, the fifth of eight children on a 900-acre farm near Turtle Lake, North Dakota.