Black-Crowned Night Heron

York, PA

Doug Tallamy June 19th!

Come hear Doug Tallamy on June 19th in York!  Get tickets and learn more: here.

Lacewing Larvae

I'm admiring the gorgeous bark of a tree and looking at the ants running up and down the bark terrain when I notice a tiny lump of lichen.  Moving.  

The poor thing took a vacation from it's tree for my team of naturalists to stare at it under a microscope, take a thousand pictures, and throw out random theories of what this could possibly be.

When scared they curl up like pill bugs. 

After a while, I just google lichen covered insect and figure out it's a lacewing larvae.  Some do even cuter things than this one!  Like attach mini snail shells and ant body parts to their debris pile!  If you are having a cute attack, we should be friends, if we're not already.  Cutest insect I've ever seen. 

Wood Frog Eggs!

Petersburg, PA

Spring Blooms

Cutleaf Toothwort

Oak

Sweetgum

Wild Ginger

Trillium

Virginia Bluebells

Twinleaf

Wood Poppy

Skunk Cabbage

Lake Erie

 Bottle cap in a field of zebra mussels.

Natural, unnatural, and exotic debris.

Rainbow of trash.

Taking Over

Get lost riding boat to random island.  Hike around the corner and...