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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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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Unrest and revolution in Egypt has caught the international headlines this week. Mubarak’s ousting has left a military regime holding the reins until the...
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Pity the poor damselfly. Damselflies make up the practically-ignored suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata and are overshadowed by their flashier evolutionary cousins of...
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The Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge actually spans two states, New York and New Jersey, and has a host of species that call it...
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Folks might remember that last year I did what I grandly called an Anti-Global Warming Big Year, the idea of which was was to...
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Monarch Butterflies, as they do every fall, are heading south for the winter. Along the coast one can see pretty big numbers of them,...
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Two of the more recognizable butterflies of the northeastern United States were kindly enough to pause in front of my camera lens of late,...
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