Wild Wild Woods

  To complement all the blue and purple flowers around the pond this week, the Goldenrod has unfurled its blooms.  Solidago  species, common...

There are two kinds of swallows that regularly hang out near our pond.  Both species are aerial insectivores, which means they are so agile ...

We have been watching the cocoon since it was re-attached to a willow stem two days ago.  Today the Polyphemus silk moth  Antheraea polyp...

I found an unfamiliar object on a twig laying on the ground near the pond. Deer have browsed the willow shoots in that area, and this w...

My knowledge of garden pests seems to have evaporated over winter . . . This 2-inch-long small green worm with a silvery stripe would usu...

A sunny late-summer afternoon at the edge of the woods . . .  this White-lined Sphinx Moth Hyles lineata joined the butterflies scouti...