Published October 25, 2015 Autumn Portal I am back home and chasing fall. October is the peak of color somewhere every day in the southern Appalachian mountains, and […]
Published August 20, 2015 Night Magic. This giant silk moth, Polyphemus, is named for the mythical Cyclops because of their startlingly large eyespots. This confuses predators into thinking […]
Published March 8, 2016 Whooping Cranes Many years ago driving across the country I caught a glimpse of a whooping crane on migration. Ever since then, I have […]
Published October 6, 2015 Pitcher Plants Years ago as a graduate student at Harvard I was part of a team documenting the first case of carnivory in bromeliads. […]