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Ellen Snyder
Aug 10, 2023
Erica, wonderful work and I love your enthusiasm for people and nature in urban environments.

From "Urban Ecology with Erica Holm" »

John Litvaitis
Aug 10, 2023
Erica, Wonderful to read about your success!

From "Urban Ecology with Erica Holm" »

Pat
Aug 09, 2023
I lived in MI for over five years and never saw a cecropia moth.  When I moved to SC I found two cocoons while pruning my oak trees in Jan.  Both emerged beg. April. Both were female. …

From "Cecropia Moths" »

Melinda Koonce
Aug 06, 2023
I remember puff ball mushrooms from the lush woods near Grayling MI. ♥️

From "Puff, the Magic Mushroom" »

Walter
Aug 06, 2023
I have a 262 year old beech tree that centers my wrap-around driveway and as of 2.5 years ago the once beautiful tree that has seen generations upon generations of lives and the worlds they lived in is now rapidly dying. I…

From "Beech Trees Under Attack" »

ken bevis
Aug 02, 2023
Extremely well written. Thank you for the vision of the stream. I have had similar epiphanies, but never have been able to capture it so well.

From "What the Old Ones Show Us" »

Mary
Jul 29, 2023
Bill, thank you for all this important hard work you are doing, creating such positive impact!  Organizing, communicating, educating, getting people involved, helping us care—this is what we need to save and preserve our beautiful Earth.

From "Getting to Know The Last Green Valley with Bill Reid" »

Mary
Jul 29, 2023
Thank you for this fascinating, engaging and beautifully written article. I have often seen this phone and wondered what in the world it was, and now I know.  I bet you are a great teacher, your students are fortunate!

From "Spittlebugs Hide in Plain Sight" »

Michael
Jul 27, 2023
Thanks Susan for a thoughtful and informative article regarding spotted turtles. My one and only encounter of this species is a rather odd tale. At our home in Massachusetts while doing yard work, I spotted a spotted turtle as it…

From "Spotted Turtles: Rare and Reclusive" »

Susan Shea
Jul 27, 2023
Thanks for sharing this experience, Timothy!

From "Spotted Turtles: Rare and Reclusive" »

Norma Tomey
Jul 25, 2023
I have had Lyme 2x within a year. There was no evidence of a tick bite. I knew something was not right. Fatigue, joint aches, upset stomach. Does the virus remain in the body forever, then manifests itself when the…

From "Tick-borne Diseases on the Rise" »

Timothy Loftus
Jul 24, 2023
Susan, Great article! I saw my first Yellow-spotted Turtle many years ago while I was certifying a couple vernal pools in Central MA. Knee-deep in water and searching for Wood Frog eggs in the flooded blueberry bushes of the pool,…

From "Spotted Turtles: Rare and Reclusive" »

Debbie Bill
Jul 24, 2023
Please include in my previous comment that we live close to the Ohio river in Cincinnati. We love watching these hawks.

From "The Northern Harrier: A Most Unusual Hawk" »

Debbie Bill
Jul 24, 2023
We’ve had a pair of Northern Harrier hawks in our suburban backyard for several years. One landed on the rail of our deck several days ago. My husband took some pictures of it. After comparing the tail to online…

From "The Northern Harrier: A Most Unusual Hawk" »

Dot Thorsland
Jul 23, 2023
I have gray squirrels and white squirrels. Botflys seem to prefer the greys! And some years they don’t bother the squirrels.

From "Don’t Let the Botflies Bother You" »

Kathleen Moylan
Jul 20, 2023
I have definitely seen the cellar spider-mom with her little babes nearby! At first I thought they were the remains of gnats or something, but upon closer inspection, determined that they were tiny spiders, hanging upside-down just like mom. I…

From "The Nurturing Nature of Spider Moms" »

Anne Greene
Jul 20, 2023
Do Mockingbirds in different states only learn what bird species that are within that area?

From "The Northern Mockingbird: Master of Mimicry" »

Sharon Burnham
Jul 14, 2023
“empty nymph exoskeletons . . . can be can gently unhooked from the bark, and gently (and stealthily) attached to a brother or sister’s clothing.”  Thanks for the laugh!

From "July: Week Two" »

Anton Roder
Jul 14, 2023
@Shawn: I had a overgrown hedge at the back of my property. Same problem. I cut it down about a foot off the ground and it grew right back (Much fuller than it had been). Now it just cut it…

From "Tricks of the Trade: Living Fenceposts" »