A great joy of being an entomologist is so many of the little bugs you discover are SHINY. Today's Moment of Nature Zen is a great example; this little beetle is only 1.7cm long (less than an inch), ...

A team of Michigan Tech faculty recently defeated an unlikely invader: a pretty purple flower. DECEMBER 3, 2003 -- A team of Michigan Tech faculty recently defeated an unlikely invader: a pretty ...

I’m sure you know purple loosestrife, even if you don’t know its name. It’s a big, tall clumping plant bearing bright pinkish-purple flowers and it’s appearing now in your neighborhood, especially in ...

With long legs and rainbow-like feathers, this bird walks easily across lily pads. Purple gallinule Photo Credit: Flickr Tiny and shiny, this beetle looks like a purple gem hiding among the leaves.

They burned it, mowed it, sprayed it and flooded it. But nothing killed the purple loosestrife weed, which has become a regional plague, until officials at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ...

Six years ago, a summertime glimpse of the Halfway Creek wetlands on Brice Prairie revealed a vista of stunning violet. The cause was purple loosestrife, a plant native to Eurasia that spread with ...

Have you been wondering about those roadside wildflowers that in the last few weeks have burst into a sea of purple? Let me introduce you to purple loosestrife, also known as lythrum salicaria. Do not ...

BOYNE CITY — The beetles are coming to Boyne City — not the well-know musical group, but rather insects that will eat an invasive plant. At its most recent regular meeting last week, the Boyne City ...

The purple beetle possesses a shiny purple hued body that looks beautiful in sunlight. The purple fiddler crab is a unique animal that has a bright purple shell with golden-yellow patterns over it.

Armed with bug spray and pencils, a determined group of high school sophomores plunged into the woods behind the Blackstone Valley Canal yesterday after school to count beetles. They were trying to ...