For The Times’s summer birding project, I spoke to the field guide illustrator about how to sketch a bird. Here’s how he draws a black-capped chickadee → Start with a circle, then add an oval. Draw a ...

In the relentless, never-ceasing war of man v. insect, each side has just won a minor skirmish: In Orlando, Fla., after two years of experimenting and selective breeding, the Department of Agriculture ...