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. …
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…
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.
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!
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…
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…
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,…
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…
I was talking to some of the Mass Audubon people in charge of monitoring these fields and they said that they just counted 45 male and 59 female bobolinks! Some of those birds had been displaced by mowing in unmanaged, adjacent…
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…
“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!
@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…
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