Insect… Busy Bees 6 Feb 2019 Far away, there is a land where it is warm enough for these bees to be hard at work! That land is my grandparent's front garden. These were taken back…
butterflies… Grading break 24 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 I have a wonderful job adjuncting two sections of a music appreciation course this year. The lights work, and there is a piano. One of the five dry erase markers…
butterflies… Said the spider to the (butter)fly… 9 Sep 20188 Sep 2018 '"Will you step into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly' ... So begins the 1829 poem of a wily spider and a foolish fly, written by Mary Howitt.…
butterflies… Question Mark … or Comma? 6 Sep 20186 Sep 2018 Periodically, I work as a copyeditor. Sometimes my job is closer to a tutor, sometimes to a full editor, but a question I hardly ever encounter is whether something should…
butterflies… Swallowtails 4 Sep 20184 Sep 2018 This has been a fantastic year for swallowtails. I tried for three years to get a picture of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail one in the urban parks near my home,…
butterflies… Back to the Blues 15 Aug 201815 Aug 2018 Eastern tailed-blues, that is. (Although admittedly, I have been trying to work some blues into my listening as well, to prepare for the rapidly approaching school year.) This one, mostly…
butterflies… Happy Monday! – from your resident cloudless sulphur 16 Jul 201816 Jul 2018 I was running late for the campus shuttle. And then a bright spark of butter yellow casually floated over the asphalt, headed over to the nectar bar along the side…
butterflies… Eastern-Tailed Blue 23 Jun 201823 Jun 2018 Eastern-tailed blues are so-called because they have a tiny little tail off the edge of their wings, although it is shorter than the "tail" of the longer true hairstreaks. This…
butterflies… First Cabbage White?!? 16 Jun 201816 Jun 2018 Cabbage white butterflies have been a constant *almost* wherever I go. Usually, they're among the first butterflies I see in the spring, and not coincidentally, they're also among the first…
butterflies… Silvery Checkerspots 11 Jun 201810 Jun 2018 It was the weekend. The adjuncts and grads broke free of their work for a little bit and ventured into the steaming sauna of summer. I staggered off with my…
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