National Moth Week begins on July 21st. Yay, a whole week dedicated to studying one of my family's favorite insects! Every fall my children stumble upon multiple caterpillars to overwinter, and many of them are moths. The huge Prometheus moth …
Tomorrow, June 20th, is a day set aside to honor a majestic creature that is very familiar to most of us: the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). It holds the distinction of being both the national bird and national animal of the United States of …
Turtles and toads were some of the very first creatures I was enamored with as a child. They were close to the ground—thus at my level—and neither one moved too swiftly to catch. When I was small, my pop made me a tiny turtle pen out of wire that …
