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…

One recent morning, trying to find the source of a warbler trill high in a white pine tree, I was rewarded with a brilliant flash of orange. It was my first sighting of a Blackburnian warbler, one of…

This week in the woods, one-flowered wintergreen popped up everywhere in a shaded Topsham, Vermont, pine stand but didn’t want to grant us the privilege of seeing its face unless we got down on…

This week in the woods, one-flowered wintergreen popped up everywhere in a shaded Topsham, Vermont, pine stand but didn’t want to grant us the privilege of seeing its face unless we got down on…

The river roars in the heat of the summer. The water is clear and cool, and a respite from the high sun. An angler leans back, fly-fishing rod in hand, and casts it forward. The fly drops and sinks…

Our favorite party of the year is back! Lepidopterist JoAnne Russo will once again transform our backyard into a moth stage. We invite you to observe, learn, and celebrate our local moths. Bring a…

This week in the woods, in anticipation of Friday's third-annual Moth Ball at the Northern Woodlands offices in Lyme, we’re looking at some lepidoptera (three moths and a butterfly for good…

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One…

Scudder Parker has lived in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont for more than 70 years. He was a Protestant minister for two decades, a state senator for eight years, and a candidate for governor. He was…

This week in the woods, our boots squelched as we made our way to a colony of twinflowers spreading beside a wetland in Strafford, Vermont. This weak woody “subshrub” – or what the…

Welcome to another season in our pollinator garden! This spring has brought fresh blooms, eager visitors, and a few improvements to help the garden thrive – including a new stone border and…

This spiky meadowsweet was found walking in a field. What creates this spiky form?