by Kevin Shank | Oct 1, 2023 | 2023, 10 October, Acrostic, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Insects & Arachnids, Puzzle
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by Kevin Shank | Jun 1, 2023 | 2023, 06 June Readers' Issue, Birds, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, Insects & Arachnids, Pelicans, Pictures and Poems
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by Phoebe Hochstetler | May 1, 2023 | 2023, 05 May Story Contest, Articles & Stories, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Caterpillars, Contest, Insects & Arachnids, Story Contest
View the May 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Photo © JjGouin/Dreamstime.com. I guess it started when a lady said she had a monarch caterpillar for us along with some milkweed to feed it. Although we didn’t know if it would turn out to be a he or she, my mom, a namer of...
by Anna Boggs, Rural Retreat, VA | May 1, 2023 | 2023, 05 May Story Contest, Articles & Stories, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Contest, Insects & Arachnids, Plants & Fungi, Story Contest, Trees
View the May 2023 Nature Friend Magazine They say ignorance is bliss. In some ways, I wish I had never taken that summer evening walk.“Mom, could I head out and look for monarchs again?”I’d waited long enough, I thought, for the milkweed-loving monarchs to populate...
by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2023 | 2023, 04 April, Art Contest, Contest, Plants & Fungi, Wildflowers
View the April 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Bloodroot, trout lilies, spring beauties. Artwork © Julia Plichta. Monarch on black-eyed Susan. Artwork © Daniel Martin. Knotweed. Artwork © Kendra Klaassen. Lotus. Artwork © Caleb...
by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2022 | 2022, 12 December, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Insects & Arachnids, Mailbox
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by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2022 | 2022, 09 September, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Insects & Arachnids, Mammals, Pictures and Poems, Reptiles & Amphibians
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Contest, From the Editor's Quill, Insects & Arachnids, Puzzle, Scavenger Hunt
by Kevin Shank | Jan 10, 2022 | 2022, 01 January, Articles & Stories, Birds, Exploring Nature, Mammals
By mid-January, the wintering eagle population peaks in Virginia.Look at snowflake designs under a microscope.Bucks are shedding their antlers.January and February are the most popular months to visit the monarch butterfly migration sites in Mexico.Maintain bird...
by Kevin Shank | Aug 18, 2021 | 2021, 09 September, Birds, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Creation Close-ups, Insects & Arachnids, Mammals, Owls, Plants & Fungi, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes
