Like other better-known (and better-liked) insects like bumblebees and butterflies, yellow jackets are also pretty good pollinators. According to the National Park Service, yellow jackets, which also ...

#6 Yellowjacket (Vespula spp.) Yellowjackets are wasps common in North America. They build paper nests underground or in walls. Known for being aggressive near food or nests.

A sharp rise in sightings of the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis) has been recorded across Andalucía, with confirmed reports increasing by more than 30 percent since the species was first ...

The United States’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), signed into law in 1973, has helped revive the populations of nearly 300 species.. The ESA protects animals that are classified under federal ...

Conservation is about the ecosystems that species define and on which they depend. Conservation is about finding alternative, sustainable futures for peoples, for forests, and for wetlands.

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act.The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act.The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...

The fourth African species, Temminck’s pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), also called the ground pangolin, is already listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.