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Punk inspiration
July 31, 2020 - By tradition, the Ramones, the Damned, and the Saints generally get credit for recording the first punk rock records—and...
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A touch of garden gold
July 03, 2020 - This is another instance of what I'd call the Dorothy Syndrome, as in, from the Wizard of Oz, "there's no place like hom...
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At last, Luna-cy
June 26, 2020 - Like all too much in the natural and human worlds, the good things, from giant silk moths to songbirds—I'd best not get...
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Successful invader
June 20, 2020 - The Astilbe flowers are prime in my garden now, and I'm spending an inordinate amount of time every day combing them for...
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Toad time
April 14, 2020 - It was chilly for most of the day... but not too cool to keep the Spring Peepers and American Toads from making a genuin...
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Rhubarb robbery
July 26, 2019 - One of the reasons I am forever behind in keeping this endeavor up to date is because I spend way too much time trying t...
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Flower fly
April 25, 2019 - A very attractive, buttercup-like flower is putting on a show along the edges of the back yard, and while Lesser Celandi...
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Subterfugery
April 23, 2019 - Every year at just about this time, I make a mental note to start examining the flowers for the presence of a "bee" that...
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Dipteran uncertainty
January 28, 2019 - The warm, January Thaw weather we've been enjoyed is about to undergo a reality check, but while the temperatures remain...
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Apologia
December 30, 2018 - I was afraid it was going to come to this: the need for a "vacation" from the daily posting of natural history observati...
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Fly finding
August 16, 2018 - When I was a kid, the notion that the only good fly is a dead fly was firmly hammered into my psyche. But while I'm stil...
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Prurient interest
April 08, 2018 - Beyond the simple fact that I know these are flies, I'm just not sure of their exact identity. But while species and gen...
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The pollinators arrive
March 12, 2018 - In a recent scientific paper I scanned, the headline touted members of the housefly congregation as the dominant pollina...
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Sun fly
March 06, 2018 - It actually got warm today... well, warmish... and when I'd finally finished up enough inside work to be able to finally...
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Tigers in the midst
August 08, 2015 - I've seen these insects before, but I've never bothered to identify them. Actually, I bothered to misidentify them, dism...
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Punk flies
September 05, 2014 - The first genuine summer weather is upon us, with temperatures approaching 90 and humidity levels in that neighborhood....
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