Home of a Feral Biologist

This past weekend I decided it was time to harvest the sweet potatoes, because it looked like the last weekend we'd have before a fre...

October was so busy I missed doing an update for the Butterfly Moon. Now it's November, and the winter garden is planted, while the last...

The post from this blog with the most pageviews of all time is this post about finding all these rhinoceros beetle grubs around the dead En...

This was the scene the other night at the lid full of water we have on our back porch for critters. (It's actually the lid off one of...

Monday was the Harvest Moon, which means fall is almost here. Of course it's still been in the high-90's, but today the first big co...

The Dog Moon is named for the Dog Days of Summer, when Sirius the Dog Star is prominent in the night sky, and it's really, really hot. I...

During the hottest time of year the afternoons are full of the sound of annual cicadas, also known as Dog Day Cicadas (genus Tibicen ), name...