More goodies from down the street... What has befallen into my lap today but six darling camouflaged loopers ( Synchlora aerata ). These cat...

I almost forgot! The other day, the boys brought over a beautiful moth. It's a waved sphinx ( Ceratomia undulosa ). They are supposedly ...

Just another thing I noted and have been wondering about... At one point while the northern water snake was hunting around the shallow water...

I saw something today I had never experienced in the wild: watching a snake catch, strangle, and eat it's prey from start to finish. I h...

What a day! Sales were decent but slowed way down in the afternoon (when most people tend to come back and make purchases after thinking it ...

Anyone want to come keep me company at the Art on Lark festival today? 10-5, Lark street in Albany NY, my booth is near the middle of the s...

My polyphemous moth egg finally hatched... into about a dozen tiny parasitoid wasps :( I could not get a photo of the wasps, they were reall...

I was examining the dogwood tree in our backyard today, as it attracts a wide variety of insects. A little spittlebug (family Cercopidae) ca...

I had another encounter with the water snake currently residing in our pond. It was early in the morning, about 7:30, still a bit cool and c...

Some of the lettuce in our backyard garden is maturing, with large stalks and flowers. I looked under the leaves, and found lots of little y...