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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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PublishedFebruary 28, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Climate change bubbles
Climate scientists have been right all along, and there is basically no time left to be patient with people who do not know what they are talking about, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Flowers in February
Snowdrops, blossoming out of February snow, are a sign that life recurs within the very fabric of winter itself, Dana Wilde writes.
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