May has long been my favourite month of the year. The days are longer and warmer, flowers fill the meadows, and the birds are...
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Monarchs. They’re practically honorary birds – beloved, much written about, rather visible and charismatic in their stripey larval form and spectacularly so as vivid...
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How do you solve a problem like the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)? With all due respect to Maria von Trapp, combating the greatest infestation...
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Mike photographed this Unmarked Dagger (Acronicta innotata) at his family’s annual “Chicken Inferno” in 2009. Wonder what he’ll find this year! Are you a birder who...
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I have never in my life been more glad not to be a bug. … If you liked this post and want to see...
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While exploring the grounds of Wildsumaco Lodge on the east slope of the Andes in Ecuador I came across a rather large bug lying...
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When I was a child, we called them locusts. They appeared sometime between when we started to worry about the water level in the...
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My daughter and I were exploring our yard the other day, which presented the perfect opportunity to introduce her to one of the coolest,...
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