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  • Published
    October 12, 2016

    Canada geese a sign of autumn

    There's a lot more going on than meets the eye when the geese take flight in the fall, writes Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    September 21, 2016

    Beauty in a trash line web

    A tiny spider's work of art prompts questions about its beautiful, symmetrical orb web, Dana Wilde writes.

  • Published
    September 7, 2016

    Summer’s getting ready to close down

    You might have noticed that where six weeks or so ago you were fooling around in your yard in twilight after 9 p.m., now in September daylight is fading out around 7:30, writes Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    August 24, 2016

    Late-August morning walk in Central Maine

    Turtles, birds, trees and flowers all part of the scene on a recent day, writes Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    August 10, 2016

    Despite disease, elm trees live on

    Biologists estimate that 1 in 100,000 elms has a natural resistance to Dutch elm disease, leaving a few behind where there once were many, writes Dana Wilde.

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  • Published
    July 27, 2016

    The bedbug life cycle — explained

    Columnist Dana Wilde's brother is an exterminator who finds himself in some weird situations with bugs and humans.

  • Published
    July 13, 2016

    Sleepy stretch of summer

    No one knows the exact chemical location where brain hallucinations, delirium and death intersect with the visionary beauty of summer flowers, writes Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    June 22, 2016

    Snapping turtles crossing

    You'd think swerving out to avoid a turtle would put a better shine on your day than swerving onto the roadside to crush one, writes Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    June 8, 2016

    Why the barred owl sings

    Their primordial lines of poetry have been sung in these woods for who knows how many millennia, writes Dana Wilde.

  • Published
    May 25, 2016

    Goldfinch a sure sign of summer

    We tend to be pretty self-congratulatory about our superior language capabilities, while the goldfinches meanwhile are outsinging us all, writes Dana Wilde.