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PublishedJuly 24, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: The spiders in the mailbox
This is the season in Maine when spiders are most active, and when you're most likely to see one, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: A garter snake slithers into view
Dana Wilde recalls a recent encounter his grandson had with a snake and the discussion that followed about whether to keep the reptile or set it free.
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PublishedJune 26, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: A really big spider sends us scrambling
A fishing spider found on a basement floor got the columnist and his grandson looking for a jar big enough to contain it, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedJune 12, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Painted turtles know just where to go
This is the time of the year when turtles are on the move, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedMay 22, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Wolf spiders discovered on one of the first bug-, toad- and frog-finding missions of the spring
Are wolf spiders scary because of their name or because they are spiders? Dana Wilde writes
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PublishedMay 8, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: The music of the winter wren
More than a century and half after Henry David Thoreau first captured his impressions of the world around him, his words remain a reliable guide, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedApril 24, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Mining bees and the beginning of spring
After a strangely disrupted winter, the routine signs of life returning this month are reassuring that some kind of conventional order persists, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedApril 10, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: An apparition of waxwings
Bohemian waxwings recently moved in on Dana's Wilde's space-time, representing a spirit of a moment.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Upside down March
Chaotic, patternless weather is new but it's not normal, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Woods, words and wanderings in the poetry of Charles Weld
'Most of the book riffs off Thoreau in these various ways, and a last section calls into the woods the voices of other naturalists,' Dana Wilde says.
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