Associate Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, West Virginia University Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds – one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies – is a joy like no other. It is ...

Chances are your neighborhood squirrels are to blame. "Tree squirrels have the instinct to bury and cache food for later use," says Robert Pierce, PhD, associate professor and state extension ...

The brightly-colored flying insects are classified as social wasps, which means they tend to live together in fairly large groups. As a result, you might find nests all around your property, or even ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...

Victor Vasquez, a manager with Truckee Meadows Pest Control, sees a lot of rats. "We get calls every day for (rats)," Vasquez said. "Some days are lighter than others, majority are in Incline and in ...

A summit is being held in Inverness later to look at the impact of urban gulls on towns and cities in Scotland. Businesses, pest controllers and scientific advisers will discuss bird droppings, dive ...

The time it takes to receive a federal income tax refund could drag out six weeks and more next year for many people who are bound and determined to receive a paper check in the mail. Beginning next ...

The birds are on the move. In flocks so think they look like a "storm" cluster on your weather radar, the birds, including hummingbirds, are moving for their annual fall migration. Most of the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The city of Raleigh is joining efforts to protect migrating birds by going lights out. Millions of birds travel through North Carolina, mostly under the cover of darkness, ...