Crab spiders ambush prey
Stopping to smell a wildflower–particularly a yellow or white one–may bring you eye-to-eye with a crab spider. Perched motionless with legs outstretched like a miniature…
Category: Invertebrates
Busy as a bee no understatement
From the moment they pupate into an adult until they die, honeybees are constantly working. Truthfully, it is the females who work constantly. Three types…
Crane flies look like big mosquitoes
Mosquito eaters, skeeter eaters and mosquito hawks are a few names for the gangly crane fly that looks like an over-sized mosquito. However, these names…
Spinning a web comes naturally for spiders
Without a single lesson, a young spider can build its own web. As the spider grows, so does the size of the web. While every…
No, you don’t have maggots in your house
Not a single fly buzzes through the house all winter and on a sunny spring day they all seem to come out of the woodwork–quite…
Sign Posts of the Forest
Wandering through the woods, I found a tree with claw marks scratched in the bark at eye-level and black hair stuck to once oozing sap.…
Autumn reveals hidden hornet nests
As the yellow leaves of autumn drop from trees, they often reveal hidden treasures such as bird nests and less desirable wasp nests. The gray,…
Camouflage a means of survival
I catch a slight movement out of the corner of my eye and stop to scan the brushy slope. After a few seconds I spy…
Praying mantis captures food with quick reflexes, fatal grip
Insects range from beautiful butterflies to everyday ants to creepy spiders and everything in between. Praying mantises are in between with their strange looks and…
No escaping the annoying buzz of mosquitos
Lying under the window at night I can hear the constant buzz of mosquitos swarming on the other side of the window screen. Almost asleep…
Dig in to find out about earthworms
I have never given much thought to worms besides wanting some in my garden and when they are scattered across roads on rainy days. I’ve…
Ladybugs are a gardener’s friend
Of all places, I did not expect to see dozens of ladybugs milling around on bare rocks amidst the snow on a ridge above Trout…
Busy as a bee no understatement
From the moment they pupate into an adult until they die, honeybees are constantly working. Truthfully, it is the females who work constantly. Three types…
Crane flies look like big mosquitoes
Mosquito eaters, skeeter eaters and mosquito hawks are a few names for the gangly crane fly that looks like an over-sized mosquito. However, these names…
Spinning a web comes naturally for spiders
Without a single lesson, a young spider can build its own web. As the spider grows, so does the size of the web. While every…
No, you don’t have maggots in your house
Not a single fly buzzes through the house all winter and on a sunny spring day they all seem to come out of the woodwork–quite…
Sign Posts of the Forest
Wandering through the woods, I found a tree with claw marks scratched in the bark at eye-level and black hair stuck to once oozing sap.…
Autumn reveals hidden hornet nests
As the yellow leaves of autumn drop from trees, they often reveal hidden treasures such as bird nests and less desirable wasp nests. The gray,…
Camouflage a means of survival
I catch a slight movement out of the corner of my eye and stop to scan the brushy slope. After a few seconds I spy…
Praying mantis captures food with quick reflexes, fatal grip
Insects range from beautiful butterflies to everyday ants to creepy spiders and everything in between. Praying mantises are in between with their strange looks and…
No escaping the annoying buzz of mosquitos
Lying under the window at night I can hear the constant buzz of mosquitos swarming on the other side of the window screen. Almost asleep…
Dig in to find out about earthworms
I have never given much thought to worms besides wanting some in my garden and when they are scattered across roads on rainy days. I’ve…
Ladybugs are a gardener’s friend
Of all places, I did not expect to see dozens of ladybugs milling around on bare rocks amidst the snow on a ridge above Trout…