A Fun-Loving Guide to the Natural World for Kids and Adults
My mother, over to visit for the annual morel hunt, spotted this tiny creature crawling out of a morel and across the table. We had it halfway outside before we decided that we simply had to get the camera. This creature is COOL!
Haven’t been able to ID it. Perhaps it is a ‘dwarf spider’ — [...]
Posted on May 8th, 2010 by Kenton and Rebecca
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Today, to our astonishment, we found a butterfly in our kitchen {…}
Posted on December 6th, 2009 by Rebecca Whitman
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In Poe’s ‘The Gold Bug’, it is a strange gold beetle that lies at the heart of the tale. This story haunted me from youth {…}
Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Kenton Whitman
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Two nights ago we were walking along our country road and were startled to hear something moving in the forest {…}
Posted on April 19th, 2009 by Kenton and Rebecca
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Our first Nature Mystery is this little creature. We came across it in a horse arena, resting comfortably in {…}
Posted on April 18th, 2009 by Kenton and Rebecca
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As I stepped from the shower the other night, I noticed something quite remarkable on the plastic covering the window. Two multi-colored Asian Lady Beetles had left their tracks in {…}
Posted on April 12th, 2009 by Rebecca Whitman
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When we took a picture of this little critter – one of the first ‘bugs’ we’ve seen this spring – we realized that we didn’t know what it was. We had both seen them all our lives – like little balls of velvet with legs {…}
Posted on April 6th, 2009 by Kenton and Rebecca
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We have a lot of Asian Lady Beetles in our house. A lot. People consider them a terrible nuisance, since they tend to swarm by the hundreds over your windows, fly into your drink, and occasionally dive-bomb you for the apparent sole purpose of landing on your arm and biting you. Apart from that, they’re pretty neat {. . .}
Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Kenton Whitman
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