Here’s one way to think about the latest effort by New Hampshire Fish and Game to support pollinators: It’s the skinniest environmental program in...
Woolly bear caterpillars seem to be everywhere these days — creeping across the lawn, along the road when I’m walking the dog, hidden in the wilted...
WILDER — Minutes into a bird-watching walk around Kilowatt Park last week, four naturalists from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies spied a bald...
On spring evenings, just before dark, I used to hear a faint drumroll coming from somewhere off in the wooded hills. It sounded to me like an old...
“Squish, squash.” I was walking gingerly on a soft, spongy carpet of sphagnum moss in a northern Vermont bog. Magenta blossoms decorated the sheep...
Last February, you might have seen news stories about an impending insect apocalypse.“Huge global extinction risk.” “Plummeting insect numbers...
NEW YORK — With two pairs of fine-tipped tweezers and the hands of a surgeon, Cheryl Hayashi began dissecting the body of a silver garden spider...
A regular chore of mine is to dispose of the mice and moles trapped in our home. I place them on a 4-by-5-foot patch of dirt and rock — which I...