Blue Jay Barrens

The Allegheny Mound Builder Ants, Formica exsectoides , are famous for the large earth mounds created as a home for their colony.  What t...

  The year is full of seasonal events.   Some I like and some I don’t.   As I was heading home yesterday evening, the road through ou...

A Common Evening Primrose, Oenothera biennis , managed to establish itself beside the barn.   This is a native biennial that prefers gr...

Everybody likes a good swarm and ants are master swarmers.   I believe this species is Acanthomyops interjectus , AKA Larger Yellow Ant...

Soil temperatures are warming rapidly and this has stimulated the Allegheny Mound Ants, Formica exsectoides , to almost frantic activit...

February 1 brought another day of 60 degree temperatures.   I guess the warmth finally soaked through the ant mounds, because the Alleg...

January 31 high temperatures made it into the mid 60’s, so I decided to check out some ant mounds to see if there were any ants moving ...