View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Why,” you ask, “would I want to include native spring ephemerals in my wildflower garden?”Well, in my experience, these wildflowers are much more than...
Insects & Arachnids
Favorite Focus and Focus Illustrated, April 2024
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Exploring Nature, January 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Find frost flowers or ice needles. These occur when the air is icy cold yet the soil is still above freezing and plant roots are active. In mid-January...
Creation Close-ups, December 2023
Mailbox, December 2023
Bugs and Slugs Word Search
Composition Considerations
Now that you have a subject in your viewfinder, what makes a pleasing composition?The answers will vary, and usually there is not a right/wrong way. First of all, what is being photographed? If it...
Favorite Focus, November 2023
Pine Warbler. Photo © Weston Martin, Greencastle, PA. Photo © Peter Shirk, New Columbia, PA. Eastern lubber grasshopper. Photo © Abigail Russell, Austin, TX. Green darner dragonfly. Photo © Colette...
Covers, October 2023
Let’s Take a Hike, October 2023: Tiger Swallowtail
Tiger swallowtail on lilac. Photo © Faithe Delmore.
From the Editor’s Quill, October 2023
A Peek Into an Apiary
I stared at the thermometer. “Eighty degrees. That’s a little warm to be in the sun, don’t you think?” I asked Mom.“It’s perfect weather to check the bees,” Mom assured me as she filled her bucket...
Pictures & Poems, October 2023
Mailbox, October 2023
5 Reasons Why Bugs Aren’t Just Creepy Crawlers
A lot of people think that bugs are nothing but a nuisance and are unimportant. I did so myself. But then I began to think about all the things bugs do. Here are five reasons why bugs are important....