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PublishedNovember 9, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: The tangled webs of bridge spiders
Dana Wilde tries to unravel the mystery of spiders whose presence is known mainly on bridges or other structures overhanging water, where small gnats are their a preferred food.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: The beautiful, reviled shag
Cormorants vibrate some living thread between here and boyhood as they fish local waters, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Incredible ironies in a looming disaster
It is incredible that we are making more trash now than we were 20 years ago, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Transfixed by a September field
Contemplating a natural beauty so intense it’s almost unendurable is like encountering an angel, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Wasps and spiders
Watching a small wasp drag an immobile spider across the deck on a summer afternoon, Dana Wilde thinks of the underground chamber that awaits for the coming creature lifecycle.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Of time and toads
Exploring the outdoors with a 5-year-old, Dana Wilde navigates the wild frontier of a child's wonder and all that's discovered along the way.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Science, fiction and the oak
An attempt to identify an unknown object in the woods reveals a natural phenomenon that could generate science fiction, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: A rainbow in the eye of the beholder
The beauty of light rays refracted inside raindrops give us — or so it seems — a peculiar sense of grace being imposed on the world, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Worrying observations in a summer bug report
Here's hoping that burying beetles reappear in the compost pile and deer flies stab my arms on July afternoons, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedJune 22, 2022
Backyard Naturalist: Food for thought
We have a moral responsibility to the Earth and we need to do better so things don't stop working, Dana Wilde writes.
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