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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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Hydrangea highway robbery

July 14, 2020 - Among the most anticipated arrivals in the summer fly department would be these bumblebee mimics belonging to the dipter...
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Apologia, yet again

October 07, 2019 - I've tried... honest I have... and for years—I started this daily account of my meanderings in 2013, after all—I was abl...
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Character assassination

July 31, 2019 - If you comb just about any collection of flowers, especially those of hydrangeas and goldenrods, you may notice a small,...
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Thickheadedness, redux

August 01, 2018 - Last year, towards the end of summer, I spotted the strangest of wasp mimics in the Assekonk Swamp while I was teaching...
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Menage a trois, beetle-style

July 13, 2018 - If you're inclined to base your explanations of the "birds and the bees" on what you find in the natural world, then may...
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Contemplating robbery

October 15, 2017 - When I spotted what I figured was one of the vast collection of predatory insects known as Robber Flies on a Hydrangea l...
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Snake in the... hydrangeas

October 04, 2017 - I didn't really have much time to trek today, but, on a writing break this afternoon, I at least made a circuit of the y...
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Hiding in plain sight

September 28, 2017 - Thank God for BugGuide.net and its family of fine, fine invertebrate identifiers who are all, incidentally, unpaid volun...
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Sociable climber

September 27, 2016 - This has been a rough week, walking wise, and my fond hope that I would start every morning with a trek has, because of...
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Goodbye and fare thee well

October 09, 2015 - It turns out that we had very little time—precious little time—left, and a few minutes past midnight, Max, who had been...
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