Blue Jay Barrens

My house in Southern Ohio sits atop a small cellar that was part of an old farm house constructed in 1875.  A drain pipe runs from the ce...

This is American Bittersweet, Celastrus scandens , a native plant that is becoming increasingly rare in this area.  Thirty years ago, I us...

About two weeks ago, while sitting on the front porch cleaning my boots, I heard the unmistakable buzz of a female Pipe Organ Mud Dauber,...

My Teasel removal activities took so little time this year that I can’t even describe the activity as an event.  I spent about four hours...

I recently had an interesting encounter with an Eastern Hognose Snake. The snake had gotten itself caught in the mesh of a rat trap that ...

Since I don’t actually count the butterflies or produce any type of tally, my annual observations of the Edwards’ Hairstreak Butterfly ca...

Another batch of Cycnia collaris , formerly Cycnia inopinatus , is munching its way through the clump of Common Milkweed beside my front ...