Try sugaring for moths! Nature highlights for June.
Insects & Arachnids
Be an Alpine Giant for a Day
Dad, are you crazy? my son was probably thinking as our van rocked and shook in the 60-mile-an-hour gale…
Study Guide Puzzles, June 2025
Reinforce nature facts from the June issue with the Study Guide puzzles!
Creation Close-ups, May 2025
Readers’ photo submissions from the May issue.
Mailbox, May 2025
Moon rays… Venus phases… night-flying bees… Read the May letters to the editor.
Fool Me Once, Lady’s Slipper…
“Fool me once…BZZZZZZZ!” Bumblebee buzzed angrily as she whizzed past. As she bumbled on through the bracken fern and around the blueberry bushes, I think I heard her mumbling, “Why does everything have to have hardly any nectar and pollen?…”
Favorite Focus, May 2025
View our readers’ favorite photos from the past month!
Exploring Nature, May 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Visit vernal pools and listen to the various species of frogs and toads. Watch their vocal sacs. Look for tadpoles developing. Take a wildflower hike and...
Study Guide Puzzles, March 2025
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Pictures & Poems, March 2025
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Winter Waterskiers
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Stonefly. Photo © Dana Atkinson. Winter stoneflies do not seem to care that the river in front of our house is narrow enough to be designated as a “no...
In Anticipation of Spring
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive American Goldfinch. Photo © Cheryl Shank It is easy to enjoy winter when frosty clusters drifting from the sky turn the world into a snow globe. But when...
Christmas Decorations That Keep Giving
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Dana Atkinson. Grandma got more than she bargained for when she brought in some greenery for Christmas. You might get some surprises too if you...
Wondernose: What tiny insect manufactures a product that’s commercially important throughout the world?
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Honeybee! Sounds like a logical answer, doesn’t it? What insect product is more important than honey? None, I suppose, but the answer to today’s riddle is...
Mailbox, November 2024
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