Models of complex life cycles predict that greater mortality of immature stages should induce earlier metamorphosis at smaller sizes. We tested for effects of one source of mortality, habitat drying, ...

Tree holes: You probably don't think about them much. They're often difficult to see and easy to ignore. But to the frog species Frankixalus jerdonii, they are everything. These little brown frogs lay ...

Audio will be available later today. The male tree-hole frog is a one-inch-long fellow that lives in the rainforests of the southeast Asian island of Borneo. He's not much on brainpower, but he's ...

The sapsucker woodpecker is causing problems in the region, plus other reader inquiries about ash trees dropping leaves and transplanting lilies. A sapsucker woodpecker can cause damage to area trees ...

Q: Several of my fruit trees have a ring of small holes around the trunk. The ring stretches completely around the trunk and is several inches wide. Do you know what might be the cause and if it kills ...