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Here Be Dragons
Butterfly numbers are down this year in Tidewater Virginia. Since 1999 when local naturalists began annual surveys there have been large fluctuations from year-to-year, but the numbers recorded this year on a hot July day were almost half the reckoning … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly, Charles Elton, Dragonfly, Dragons, lemmings, Mary Pickford, snowy owls
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Nose to Proboscis
Dogs get really close when they want to check something out. Noses twitch and nares gape when air is being drawn from an object of curiosity across their olfactory epithelium, which can sense far more odors than we can ever … Continue reading
Roger musing about Peace with Nature 