Category: Dec2020

If you’re familiar with the saying, “all shapes and sizes,” it truly fits when describing moths.

by Alejandra Gomez I have always been fascinated by frogs! It was in my early, formative years of junior high school, where I was introduced to the dissection of frogs. I remember being told that a frog’s body provided an overview of the organ system of a complex living thing. The organs present in frogs…

Lichens are a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga.

by Maria Reyna-Gomez On Saturday, November 21. 2020, members of our Rio Grande Valley Chapter participated in a beach cleanup at Boca Chica Beach. Several members concentrated on cleaning the area of one of two sites monitored by our partner, Stephanie Bilodeau, Conservation Field Biologist, for the Coastal Bend Bay & Estuaries Program here in…

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is host to Citizen Science Project FeederWatch. I have participated in this program for several years now and find it very rewarding.

by Diane Hall Elections were held at the December 8 RGVC TMN meeting…drum roll, please… Robert Gaitan was elected President, Carolyn Cardile will be our new Secretary, and the rest of the officers remain the same. The President will appoint Directors and Standing Committee Chairs. Diane Hall is continuing as the new Chachalaca Editor.