Minnesota is known for its mosquitoes. Up north, it's our unofficial state bird, and even in the lake-deprived southeast region, this buzzing pest is a constant concern for hikers, campers and pretty ...

Check your kids carefully before they go to bed each night. Put on bug spray before you're sure you'll need it. Keep your dog on a leash and on the trail when you venture into a park or natural area.

Minnesota officially designates the giant beaver as state fossil, years after students sparked a classroom effort in Eden ...

As mosquito season ramps up, the University of Calgary and the city are calling on citizen scientists to help them study the ...

Bird Flu has been a big contributor to the extreme rise in egg prices in 2025. To try and contain the spread, millions of egg ...

Places like Detroit, Cleveland, and even Denver are climbing fast. California remains one of the most mosquito-infested ...

The Asian tiger mosquito, one of the most invasive insect species in Connecticut, is rapidly spreading and finding more territory in the state, officials said. The invasive Asian tiger mosquito first ...

Brazil has reported its first H5N1 avian flu outbreak in commercial poultry, which began on May 12 near the city of ...

Simonett: Right? It sounds buggy. Outside: Well, the mosquito is the state bird of Minnesota. Simonett: And you won’t find any more of them than in the Boundary Waters if you go at a certain ...

Backing up those observations is the 2025 State ... of all American bird species are of high or moderate concern due to low populations, declining trends, or other threats. In Minnesota, we ...

ST. PAUL — Shortly after the Minnesota Board of Animal Health quarantined a Stearns County dairy herd after samples collected as part of the state’s milk surveillance plan tested positive for ...