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Gardening can be a four-season labor of love. Here's a look at some winter tasks and projects

Dec. 10, 2024 08:38 AM EST

I see you, sitting there by the fire with your cup of hot cocoa (or wine). Don’t get too comfortable. You might think you can rest on your laurels now that there’s a break in the mowing, weeding, sowing and planting action. But fall and winter are the best times to tend to your...

PHOTO COLLECTION: Insect and Animal Life

Nov. 29, 2024 10:18 AM EST
This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.

From yuck to profits: Some Zimbabwe farmers turn to maggots to survive drought and thrive

Nov. 29, 2024 00:29 AM EST

NYANGAMBE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn. After multiple cholera outbreaks in the southern African nation...

Fossilized dinosaur feces and vomit help scientists reconstruct the creatures' rise

Nov. 27, 2024 11:07 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth millions of years ago. Researchers aren't sure whether dinosaurs' rise over the course of 30 million years happened because of luck, skill,...

Views on garden insects are changing. Why many former 'pests' are now valued

Nov. 26, 2024 08:07 AM EST

A neighbor texted me this week asking for advice about controlling carpenter bees. She was hoping for an exterminator recommendation, but I gave her a simple, do-it-yourself solution that is easier on the wallet and environment, and even more effective. It got me thinking about the...

Figures and Dobson trade jabs in testy debate, Here are the key takeaways

Oct. 10, 2024 19:47 PM EDT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Congressional hopefuls Shomari Figures and Caroleene Dobson clashed in a contentious debate Thursday, exchanging verbal jabs over each other's background and sparring over abortion, immigration and the economy. Figures, a Democrat, and Dobson, a Republican,...

Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug

Oct. 09, 2024 15:29 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head looked like. That’s because many of the fossils of these creatures are...

Hey, where's your card? Another Detroit-area library deals with bugs

Sep. 25, 2024 18:06 PM EDT

OAK PARK, Mich. (AP) — Bugs in a library — again. The Oak Park Public Library in suburban Detroit was closed Wednesday for a scrubbing after bedbugs were found in two chairs in the computer area. A library nearby in Royal Oak was closed Sunday and part of Monday after staff said...