Few plants in nature illicit as strong of a reaction as poison ivy, both figuratively and literally. This dreaded plant is native to North...

With Halloween just around the corner, and autumn well underway, what better creature to write about than a spider. Arachnophobia ranks as t...

As we say goodbye to another summer as it wanes into autumn, I am reminded of how silent the landscape is soon to become. Winter with its da...

Long-Jawed Orb Weavers in the family Tetragnathidae , were first described in 1866 by a German entomologist named Anton Menge. This family n...

Fossil records indicate that black vultures were part of the fauna in Europe approximately thirty-four million years ago. Today these vult...