MY YARD IS FULL of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

I was settling in to answer a few emails when I heard, “Dad, some huge bug just flew into the lamp shade!” As the designated bug catch-and-releaser, I pressed into action. A western conifer seed bug ...

Eww, that smell. There is only one bug that makes that unique and pungent piney smell. Now appearing in homes and offices throughout Montana, the western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis) ...

As fall temperatures emerge, Connecticut residents are seeing brown marmorated stink bugs (BMSB) descend on their homes. But before reporting a sighting, Connecticut experts recommend doing a little ...

These 270-million-year-old fossils from Texas (top) show that early conifers produced a variety of winged seeds to aid dispersal by the wind. Cindy Looy and her team made identical models (bottom) to ...