Today, to our astonishment, we found a butterfly in our kitchen {…}
Posted on December 6th, 2009 by Rebecca Whitman
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A Clouded Sulphur Butterfly! In the winter!
The Gold Bug
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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Crawlers in the Night
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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Mystery Bug
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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Ladybeetle Tracks!
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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The Red Velvet Mite
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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Ladybeetles for Dinner
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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