2016-03-19 18:53
The insect order Orthoptera includes the crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids and allies. The species in this order are commonly referred to as "singing insects" because of their loud, dist… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Bracket fungi are a diverse group named more for their similar external morphologies (specifically, bracket- or shelf-like growth habits on dead or living tree trunks, and woody textures) th… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Club and coral fungi are a diverse group named more for their similar external morphologies (specifically, a coral- or club-like shape) than for their close relationship. The so-called cora… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Credit: Bearded Tooth (Hericium erinaceus) is one of the edible tooth fungi. This photo by Lebrac is used here courtesy of permission granted by Wikipedia Commons.The so-called tooth fungi… Read More
2010-10-11 22:41
Credit: This photo of a jelly fungus by Walter Siegmund is used here courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.Jelly fungi are a diverse group named more for their similar external morphologies (specifi… Read More
2010-10-08 01:56
Not until a recent visit to the vicinity of Grand Haven did I realize that Michigan has bayous, or at least has water features in which the term “bayou” has been incorporated int… Read More
2010-10-05 12:31
In a grassland-oak savannah in southeastern Arizona, Carl and Jane Bock found that ground-foraging, seed-eating birds were 3 times more abundant one year after a 2-year drought ended than in… Read More
2010-10-05 10:06
Author Chip Ward has written a smart essay about wolves, the role they play in healthy ecosystems, the strong emotions that they evoke in people, and the battle lines that are inevitably dra… Read More
2010-10-04 22:03
The Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 as the first refuge for waterfowl in the United States, encompasses an area of nearly 54,000 a… Read More
2010-10-04 20:42
Shrubs constitute a particular growth form (or habit) of vascular plants. Plants USDA defines a shrub as follows:Perennial, multi-stemmed woody plant that is usually less than 4 to 5 meters… Read More
2010-10-04 20:20
In the wake of a drier-than-normal summer—with some areas experiencing a rainfall deficit of 5 or 6 inches—the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a dr… Read More
2010-09-23 18:16
Trees constitute a particular growth form (or habit) of vascular plants. Plants USDA defines a tree as follows:Perrenial, woody plant with a single stem (trunk), normally greater than 4 to… Read More
2010-09-22 18:38
As a follow-up to my previous post about the Palila (an Endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper) and drought, I here present quantitative data on the impact of drought on Palila breeding efforts.Li… Read More
2010-09-22 16:06
Credit: Oriental Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculata), courtesy of USDA Forest Service.Vines constitute a particular growth form (or habit) of vascular plants. Plants USDA defines a vine as f… Read More
2010-09-21 02:20
The Palila (Loxioides bailleui), an Endangered forest bird endemic to the “big island” of Hawaii, has declined 75 percent since 2003, to a population of 1,200 birds in 2010. Ph… Read More
2010-09-21 02:18
The dicots, short for dicotyledons (Class Magnoliopsida), are one of two classes of flowering plants, or angiosperms, within the Kingdom Plantae, the other being the monocots, or monocotyled… Read More
2010-05-10 21:48
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Project FeederWatch comes a fascinating tale about how Pinyon Jays and Clark’s Nutcrackers dispersed widely in the winter of 2002-2003 in re… Read More
2010-04-04 12:38
Here’s an annotated summary of the contents of Volume 16, Number 4 (September-October 2009) of Michigan Birds and Natural History—The Journal of Michigan Audubon:DR. LAURENCE CHA… Read More
2010-04-03 16:30
I’ve just got to plan a trip soon to sample some of the Sandhill Crane Vineyards’ offerings at their tasting room in Jackson, Michigan. I wonder if they actually have images of… Read More
2010-04-03 10:58
The Annual Midwest Crane Count, sponsored by the International Crane Foundation, will be held on Saturday, April 17, 2010.Started on a local scale in 1976, the count included most of Wiscons… Read More
2010-04-02 20:51
The 2nd annual West Michigan Birding Festival will be held May 14-16, 2010, in Ludington under sponsorship of Sable Dunes Audubon Read More
2010-04-01 19:40
In the March 1904 issue of the Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club (Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 27), we learn that "The Michigan Audubon Society [now simply Michigan Audubon] was organized at… Read More
2010-04-01 14:47
The eccentric behavior of birders (e.g., lurking about in the wee hours of the night or early morning with suspicious-looking spotting scopes or long camera lenses in hand, often adjacent to… Read More
2010-04-01 14:08
March 2009 was relatively dry in the McCoy Creek watershed of Buchanan Township, Michigan, with just 1.98 inches of precipitation, including 0.3 inches of snow. We had a maximum of 6.5 inch… Read More
2010-03-29 13:15
Western ranchers are gearing for a major plague of grasshoppers. In Wyoming, 2.9 million acres were infestations with 15 or more grasshoppers per square yard last year, a more than 10-fold… Read More
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