Luna moths, the largest of the giant silk moths, are searching for mates / The gray fox will climb trees and jump from branch to branch like a cat. Look for a ridge of black guard hair on the tail, which also has a black tip / Broadwing hawk chicks are hatching; often their nest is high in a tree / By now, spotted salamander eggs have hatched and the larvae are developing. About 70-100 days after hatching, miniature adults, 3 inches long, will crawl ashore

Forest tent caterpillars have keyhole-shaped, white spots down the back. They don’t make tents. They are destructive hardwood defoliators during outbreak years / Peas in the garden are in flower / Does hide their fawns, visiting and nursing them only two or three times a day when they are very young. Later, visits will be more frequent / Though the woodchuck can be a major nuisance in the garden, other animals, such as weasels and red foxes, sue its burrows

Mother common mergansers are teaching their downy chicks to fish / Sometimes young great horned owls tumble from the nest before they can fly and are fed on the ground by both parents / White admirals, the dark butterflies with a white band across their wings, are out. The larvae feed on yellow birch, aspens, and basswood, among other trees / Gray treefrog tadpoles are eating attached algae and minute floating organisms during their two months in the water

Those annoying no-see-ums that are plaguing us now don’t limit their feeding to human blood. They also take blood from the wing veins of moths and dragonflies / From now through August, leopard frogs will live away from ponds in meadows or damp woodlands / A 47-foot maple tree has 177,000 leaves and 675 sq meters of surface area. Two hundred and twenty liters of water move through the tree every hour on a sunny day