biology

The buzz about honey bees is that their population is still in danger. Recent data from the Bee Informed Partnership shows honey bee populations conti...

SINNEMAHONING — September is a perfect time of year to watch wildlife at Sinnemahoning State Park: Birds and butterflies are migrating, elk are buglin...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. – Imagine how delightful it would be in an indoor garden filled with free-flying monarch butterflies. Visitors can experience even mor...

Wildlife and nature can be found in every corner of Pennsylvania, sometimes in the most unlikely places. That point was made evident when visiting Wes...

Last week, more than a dozen college students, walked slowly back and forth in huge sunken sand pits at the Bradford Sanitary Authority planting reeds...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Genes in green ash trees that may confer some resistance to attacks by the emerald ash borer express themselves only once the tree d...

CENTER TOWNSHIP — Penn State Beaver biology professor Sarah Nilson is spending the summer trekking through the woods of Pennsylvania to study a plant ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Some deer are more susceptible to chronic wasting disease that is spreading through herds of white-tailed deer across much of the Un...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service – Allegheny National Forest’s wildlife biology staff are seeking data on the Northern Goshawk. The Northern Goshawk p...

An old reverting field on our camp property supports a number of apple trees along with three pear trees. Come fall the pear trees are the first to dr...

MARIENVILLE — The Allegheny National Forest will be treating glossy and common buckthorn in the Laurel Mill Trail Area through mid-November to reduce ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — The prevalence of the most abundant species of ticks found in Pennsylvania has shifted over the last century, according to Penn Stat...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford held its Honors Convocation on Friday. The convocation took place in the Bromeley Family Theater of Blaisdell...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — More than 50 people gathered Wednesday at the Salamanca Public Library for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers public hearing on a new ma...

Black bears create an atmosphere of excitement whenever they’re encountered. After all, this creature of the wild can go wherever they want. However t...

MARCH : Did you know that March is National Umbrella Month? According to almanac.com , here are some more wacky things to celebrate this month: Sunday...

Invasive plants easily adapt to changes in the environment, including those factors influenced by changing weather and climate patterns. In fact, non-...

It seemed simple enough; remove dead limbs and unnecessary growth from a once productive apple tree. By doing so, the tree would be able to direct its...

(Editor’s note: This is the third in a week-long series of stories marking National Invasive Species Awareness week in conjunction with the McKean Cou...

With the hullabaloo about invasive plants, we may wonder how bad are they and why we should worry? Are plants just plants? Natural ecosystems evolved ...