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Plague of Summer’s End: An Ode to the Carolina Grasshopper
By Carrie • September 30, 2011 • 3 commentsWhen I was a child, we called them locusts. They appeared sometime between when we started to worry about the water level in the well and when we started to worry about going back to school. They were huge – well, huge for grasshoppers, anyway – and dust-colored, and they jumped like gunpowder-propelled novelties out [...]
Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
By Mike • April 25, 2007 • 2 commentsThe acquisition of a new field guide is always a joyous occasion, signaling either an impending journey or impending answers to old questions. By the latter, I’m referring to those unclosed cases that accumulate any time a nature lover ventures outdoors armed with a camera but not a clue. As you can imagine, my digital [...]
