Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

On any given weekday in the summer, you will find me walking through fields counting bugs. In fact, it’s my job: I’m an ecologist studying the communities of insects that live in agricultural ...

Milkweeds growing in cornfields sometimes support monarch butterfly larvae at the same time the corn is shedding its pollen, according to a survey of cornfields in the Midwest, Maryland and Ontario.

“Look at all the wild turkeys!” my husband exclaimed. I was doing some editing while we drove home from the farm last week and glanced up quickly to count seven dark shapes parading across the stubble ...

It is finally the hallowed and long-awaited month of October. The hot scorch of summer has waned, the air is gratefully cooling, the crops are bountiful and ready for harvesting, and pumpkin spice has ...