Water striders live on the surface of the water, as if it were solid ground. They perform some other magic tricks too.
Read more →Over the last 3 or 4 years, I have seen a Black Phoebe spending the fall and winter months at the Arboretum.
Read more →For a long time, ladybugs intimidated me. That’s because I knew there were lots of species, and I was hesitant to dive in and figure them out.
Read more →As I head up the Zigzag Trail, I find myself shuffling through a colorful mosaic of bigleaf maple leaves.
Read more →The other day, I saw what I thought was a moth flutter past and land on a tree. What I found sitting on the bark, though, was a caddisfly, which is neither a moth nor a fly.
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