Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northern spotted owl photographed in 1995 sitting on a branch in Point Reyes, Calif. An academic partner on a U.S. Forest ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- With spotted lanternflies popping back up again, they can be more than just an unwanted pest. What they leave behind can make a mess all over your car and property. The residue ...

A beautiful menace is on the move in the United States. Polka-dotted, red-and-gray-winged insects are gliding along sidewalks, climbing on plants and crawling up buildings. Spotted youngsters are ...

The black-and-white nymphs may be crawling all over your flower beds. You're skirting (or smashing) the red-and-black adolescents as you stroll down the sidewalk. And now, they're about to become ...

The spotted lanternfly may be a beautiful insect — it has eye-catching bright red and spotted wings — that doesn't bite or sting. But the invasive species is proving to be harmful not only to farmers ...

Biologist Eric Forsman was delighted that a breeding pair of wild spotted owls he has studied for years did it again (their 3-week-old hatchlings on a hemlock in Oregon this past May). ⓒ Gary Braasch ...

In the forests across the eastern United States there hides a large, nearly mythical creature most people have never seen. Known as the spotted salamander, these yellow polka-dotted amphibians can ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Spotted lanternfly (SLF) has been the subject of a lot of media attention in the last few years. In the east, states like Pennsylvania and New York have been dealing with ...

Spotted bass and largemouth bass have a lot in common. They look alike; they can inhabit the same places in the same lakes; they eat the same forage; and they’ll fall for many of the same baits. But ...

Federal job cuts have upended spotted owl surveys in Northern and Southern California. It’s unclear whether wildfire mitigation strategies such as forest thinning can happen if the surveys are not ...