Installed just last summer, the Northern Woodlands Pollinator Garden is now in full bloom. Stop by to enjoy a wide variety of native perennials – most of them started from seed and grown right…

Perhaps you saw the flyers at your town office or a warning sign posted at your favorite swimming hole. The smell might have driven you home, but maybe you crept closer – unable to see anything…

Kass Urban-Mead is a pollinator conservation specialist, NRCS partner biologist, and the forests and forestry lead at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. After working as the…

This sessile-leaved bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia) is spotted with bright green dots while the rest of the plant turns yellow. What’s happening here?

The July photos captured summer in its prime – plants in full bloom, parents caring for their young, and perhaps some planning ahead for cooler months. A beautiful water lily was viewed by…

This week in the woods, an ambush bug perched in patient silence, eyes bulging, as it awaited prey atop a white turtlehead blooming in Corinth, Vermont. Like little Nosferatus of late-summer meadows,…

Survey the insects orbiting a globe of milkweed blossoms or the delicate blooms of a chokeberry, and you might spy an apparent chimera. It looks a bit like a bee, perhaps a tad like a wasp, and it…

Twenty years ago, at this time of year, I found myself walking the margin of a marsh in east-central Vermont with Bob Popp, Vermont’s state botanist at that time. We had traveled to that…

A few summers ago, I was walking my dog in a pasture near my house when a butterfly landed on my bare leg. It was a medium-sized black butterfly with orange crescents along the margins of its wings…

This week in the woods, along the Linny Levin Trail through the Zebedee Wetlands in Thetford, Vermont, a number of blooms, berries, and butterflies were at or around their peak abundance. Swamp…

We came across these light pink bumps on a rotting log. What are they?

Jeff Ward is a scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. He began his career there in 1987, after completing a PhD in forest ecology from Purdue University. Jeff’s research…

Every summer I go blueberry picking and I notice the many colors of blueberries, from the luminous indigo of unpicked berries on a bush, which turn nearly black after handling, to the deep red-purple…

Things are always changing in the Northern Woodlands Pollinator Garden, and we love watching the season unfold. These photos capture some recent bursts of life and color, as well as a few new features…

On a warm summer morning, you’re sitting in your yard enjoying a slow moment, when a flash of color catches your eye. Bright orange and black wings dance through the air before alighting on a…

Reader Lori van Handel found this interesting thing on the forest floor in Williamstown, Massachusetts. What is it?

Our June gallery includes impressive butterflies and moths, animal parents caring for offspring, and unusual plant species. Peg Ackerson photographed a luna moth posing as a leaf in Lyme, New…

This week in the woods, we admired this transverse-banded drone fly accumulating Rudbeckia pollen. This common insect belongs to the family Syrphidae, also known as syrphid flies, flower flies (for…

Marcus Rosten is the director of Western New York Wildway, an initiative from Western New York Land Conservancy with the mission of connecting conservation land throughout the western part of the…