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Insect Insights, a Bi-Weekly Buford Blog by Karen Richards
At first glance they look like a collection of the same, very small dark insects with a red to brown…Nature Notes, a Blog by Bryan Ribelin
The rain-saturated reefs of mosses and lichens growing throughout the arboretum soften my eyes and quiet my mind. The Ruby-crowned…Insect Insights, a Bi-Weekly Buford Blog by Karen Richards
What super-cool insect has some of the traits of a walking stick, a praying mantis, and a water strider but…Nature Notes, a Blog by Bryan Ribelin
The cottonwood leaves are golden. They shimmer against an infinite blue like reflections of the sun’s rays across the surface…Insect Insights, a Bi-Weekly Buford Blog by Karen Richards
Most of the creatures described in this column are from insect orders like Diptera (flies) or Coleoptera (beetles) that have…Nature Notes, a Blog by Bryan Ribelin
In the light of the tilting earth, the wind sweeps in rain and cool air, igniting the landscape in a…Insect Insights, a Bi-Weekly Buford Blog by Karen Richards
There are some fascinating and peculiar insects under the big tent of wasps and the smaller umbrella called Symphyta, the…Nature Notes, a Blog by Bryan Ribelin
I was on the Arboretum bird walk this month and watched a couple of flickers performing their display used for…Insect Insights, a Bi-Weekly Buford Blog by Karen Richards
The narrow-headed marsh fly or Helophilus fasciatus is a fairly large fly, about a half-inch long, and one of the earliest and the latest…Nature Notes, a Blog by Bryan Ribelin
Along some of the paths at the arboretum, you will find these pits, usually protected under the canopy of trees.…