Through Handlens and Binoculars

Back on 21-23 May 2012, I was in northwest Indiana to conduct Karner Blue Butterfly ( Lycaeides melissa samuelis , aka Plebejus melissa samu...

This past June, I was in the field with a coworker at a mitigation site in Lake County, Indiana, and we came across this odd larva moving ac...

We have definitely moved into the slow time of the year. It is dark when I drive to work in the morning, and once I get home from work I bar...

For the past several years, Lindsay and I would join Brian Miller of South Bend-Elkhart Audubon Society for a fall camping trip to Indiana ...

In my previous two posts, I discussed the plant communities and some of the plants present in three of northeastern Indiana's highest ...

I had hoped to be able to post about the St. Joseph County Parks - Spicer Lake BioBlitz that took place this past Saturday, but because the ...

In February 2009, Lindsay and I attended the Wild Things conference in Chicago . One of the presentations that we attended was given by Carl...

I think I accomplished a lot in the past week... I mowed the lawn, washed clothes, worked on plant collections, slept about 42 hours, walked...

Take a look at the caterpillar in the photograph below and see which end you think is the head, and which end you think is the rear. Many ca...

Last week at a site in Lake County, Indiana, Tony Troche and I observed a very interesting caterpillar climbing on a stem of Flat-topped Ast...