We often don’t know what sort of journey our chapter FaceBook posts or ListServe notices will offer, but most guarantee interesting learning experiences. I was recently intrigued with a workshop notice that talked about interpretive writing. If the words writing and workshop are in the same notice, my attention is usually piqued. Think back to…

It was the last day of the 17-day 4th Annual Texas Pollinator BioBlitz. I’d just spent an hour searching for something I hadn’t already uploaded to iNaturalist.org, when I looked up beneath the security light on the utility pole and VOILA! A most unique sighting! A pink-spotted hawkmoth! And cleverly camouflaged it was in the…

BioBlitz opportunities are fun! You get to compete with yourself — how fun is that? And you earn volunteer hours while having all that fun! Really, you can compete with fellow Citizen Scientists or simply enter as an individual participant and just go at your own pace. 4th Annual BioBLitz — Pollinators — October 4…

August was dreadfully hot. Drought- and heat-stressed ash trees are nearly bare, their leaves dropping like a late Midwest autumn — the only good to come of their dead leaves is the addition of carbon to the compost piles and nitrogen for the grass. Just when the horizon — and the habitat — looked its…

In the deathly stillness of a hot, breezeless, cloudless August afternoon, humidity reaching the limits, anyone with a tan might see their skin glow — and that, my friends, is a recipe for a gnat attack! No tan? No sweat — gnats are attracted to moisture — eyes, nose and ears. There’s no escaping. “Gnat”…