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Unexpected return
July 02, 2020 - When the owner of a nearby field decided that it was looking too unkempt and needed to be mowed regularly, I knew that s...
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Another milkweeder
July 09, 2017 - Like a lot of things this year, the Great Spangled Fritillary butterflies were exceptionally late in emerging and reclai...
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Hard travelin'
August 26, 2016 - On a viciously hot and humid day, interspersed with rain showers that brought little of the former and almost no relief,...
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Masterful mimic
August 20, 2016 - On a still-hot but overcast morning, I drove up to the Preston Nature Preserve to help lead an Avalonia public walk thro...
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Nothing wasted
June 28, 2016 - I saw the inert Painted Turtle shell from the road, and because the reptile remained in its spot when I approached its r...
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Pending journey
October 16, 2015 - The local milkweeds have fed what few Monarch butterfly adults and multicolored caterpillars were around this summer, an...
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Bedraggled
September 15, 2015 - In attempting to put together each year's natural history phenology, I'm always on the lookout for the firsts and lasts...
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Frits after dark
August 28, 2015 - By day, the Great Spangled Fritillary procession, the best I've ever seen, continues, although it's starting to slow dow...
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New and improved
August 18, 2015 - Joy sometimes comes unexpected and in small packages. This was certainly the case around noon time, when, feeling very s...
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In a patch of bee balm
August 17, 2015 - I got some bad news last night, when my recent blood work came back and showed that, once again, I tested positive for L...
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The first fritillary
June 10, 2015 - The first bellflowers of the year have opened in the meadow across the street, and where there are campanulas, there wil...
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Butterfly bush as advertised
August 24, 2014 - Butterfly bush is supposed to be a floriferous lepidopteran magnet, and in the plant ads and, no doubt, at White Flower...
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