As a trained entomologist, I learned a lot of fancy names for common ordinary insects. We studied insects' order, family and species name. Most people just call these “bugs.” For example, we learned ...

WEST FARGO – Winterkill of fish in lakes, reservoirs, ponds and sloughs is nothing new in North Dakota. In any given year, there’s a potential for winterkill. Just like for pheasants and deer in North ...

The 12th green at International Club of Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet during the replacement of greens with Sunday ultradwarf Bermudagrass this summer. Alan Blondin ablondin@thesunnews.com ...

It wasn't long ago - the mid-1990s - when North Dakota was pulling out of a drought and parched wetlands were recharged beyond what anyone could have reasonably predicted. At the same time, many large ...

USDA’s Foreign Ag Service (FAS) says freezing temps in Europe may have damaged wheat and rapeseed crops given the lack of a protective snowcover. Wheat and rapeseed in western Poland and eastern ...

Every year in February, North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists check lakes for low dissolved oxygen levels and potential winterkill. While deep snow and a long winter resulted in ...

What a difference eight short weeks can make. Back in late February, Craig Berberich, a technician with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ Waterville Fish Hatchery, was bouncing across ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — In a pond off the beaten path in Grand Rapids, hundreds of dead fish — carp, bluegill and bass — are piled up against a beaver dam. Bloated and belly side up, they rot in the ...

Spicer fisheries staff is testing lakes to determine the extent of winter kill; there have been reports of extensive winter kill to Point Lake, and partial winter kill to Swenson, Elizabeth and Ella ...

Frigid temperatures and a lack of moisture led to early problems for wheat farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma, but Colorado producers have not seen enough evidence to worry as much as their neighbors.