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Wildlife Vampires – Part 3
Wildlife Vampires Series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Oxpeckers and Vampire Finches There are several bird species that form symbiotic relationships with larger animals. The larger animals tolerate the birds’ presence on their bodies,… Read more >
Wildlife Vampires – Part 2
Wildlife Vampires Series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Mosquitoes For mosquitoes, it’s the ladies who are the bloodsuckers. Both sexes feed on flower nectar as their main source of nutrients. Only when she’s ready… Read more >
Wildlife Vampires – Part 1
Wildlife Vampires Series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Who’s your favorite vampire? Do you swoon over Edward Cullen and Bill Compton, or are classic bloodsuckers like Count Dracula and Lestat de Lioncourt more your… Read more >
Woolly Bears as Winter Predictors?
A telltale sign of autumn is the appearance of woolly bear caterpillars moving across backyards, sidewalks and roads. These fat, furry caterpillars are looking for safe places to spend the winter. They spend the cold months dormant under decaying logs and fallen… Read more >
Fall Swarming Insects
Fall is here! October is the season of warm days, cool nights and beautiful foliage. It’s also the time of year that many insect species begin to seek shelter from the oncoming cold. These insects normally find such shelter in… Read more >
Outdoor Kids: The Space In Between
Rebecca Cohen finds time–even in the midst of her family’s busy schedules–for nature. Read more >
Ranger Rick Six-Year-Old Helps Cornell Lab and NSF With U.S. Ladybug Recovery
It seems we must never underestimate the power of NWF’s favorite raccoon – Ranger Rick. Here is an AP story about how a motivated six year old Ranger Rick Reader helped Cornell researchers and the National Science Foundation locate a colony and obtain specimens of rare vanishing ladybugs. Mary… Read more >
Exploring New Places
Children’s author Mary Quattlebaum picks some great books about nature that’s not necessarily in your backyard. Read more >
Study: Warmer Climate Is Sending Species Uphill
University of Connecticut ecologists studying plant and animal movement in Costa Rica are finding that species may move up mountain slopes as the climate warms but areas left behind will have little to replace them: AFP in the Vancouver Sun reports:… Read more >
Migration Begins!
August is waning and school is about to start. Even though it’s technically still summer for another whole month, fall migration is already beginning for some species. The change of seasons is an important influence on animal behavior. Whether it’s the… Read more >
