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All grown up

August 15, 2020 - There have been enough adult Monarch butterflies flitting around, and, happily, plenty of the new milkweeds that the lep...
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Rescue reward

July 08, 2019 - Several weeks ago when I was out on a long walk, I noticed something disturbing: a brush-cutter-wielding young woman tid...
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Monarch munchers

August 11, 2018 - It was absolutely pouring when I got up, and I thought about cancelling the public walk I was scheduled to lead at the P...
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A ruination of Gypsy Moths

July 05, 2018 - Last year and the year before, the woods were so thick with Gypsy Moth caterpillars that you could hear a steady rain of...
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Second stroller

January 27, 2018 - It was a reasonably nice day, with temperatures in the 40s and very little wind. I probably should have gone to the dump...
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Unwelcoming committee

July 28, 2017 - It's hard to believe that something so intriguing and beautiful could be so destructive, but anyone who has watched a To...
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Safe at home

May 27, 2017 - Yet more dreary, on-the-wet-side, chilly weather, which was made all the more depressing by the fact that my granddaught...
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There goes the neighborhood

May 01, 2017 - What a birthday present! I wanted a new supertelephoto lens, a Nikon all-in-one p900, a DJI drone, or, at least, a Hasti...
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Not a caterpillar

July 31, 2016 - With the start of the orthopteran chorus, the aural signature of midsummer and beyond, I've been adding an after-dark wa...
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Lichen mimic

June 01, 2016 - I managed to get a long-ish bike ride in today, and on my way up the hill towards home, I noticed something on the road.
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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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They're back

June 20, 2015 - Sometimes an accident turns out for the best... and then there are the Gypsy Moths. The happy accident is this photograp...
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