I have never in my life been more glad not to be a bug. … If you liked this post and want to see...

When I was a child, we called them locusts. They appeared sometime between when we started to worry about the water level in the...

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...

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...

The Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge actually spans two states, New York and New Jersey, and has a host of species that call it...

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...

Monarch Butterflies, as they do every fall, are heading south for the winter.  Along the coast one can see pretty big numbers of them,...

Two of the more recognizable butterflies of the northeastern United States were kindly enough to pause in front of my camera lens of late,...