Posted: Apr 15, 2021 4:12 PM ET | Last Updated: April 15
It s easy to get excited about spring and the gardening season ahead, but please avoid taking out the rake and yard waste bags just yet, or at all! A live-and-let-live approach to yard cleanup in both the spring and fall is actually much more beneficial for pollinators and other insects.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio glaucus on Purple Coneflower(iStock/db beyer)
Not your average pile of leaves
Many moths and butterflies (known collectively as Lepidoptera in the science world) spend the winter in leaf litter in their egg, larval or pupal form. For example, butterflies like the tiger swallowtail (
Authors build elaborate worlds through everything from carefully-chosen foods to amateur map-making to breathtakingly detailed wikis, their attention to detail a signal that these are worlds worthy of getting lost in. Often these are specific moments in the text, or a helpful hand-drawn atlas bookending the epic adventure, or a bonus feature that’s just a click away. But some storytellers go the extra mile, embedding worldbuilding details into their texts as a sort of “found footage” fictional childhood stories, comic books, or newspaper clippings that appear as excerpts throughout the larger work.
Sometimes, these fictions-within-fictions take on a life of their own and emerge into the real world as self-contained stories in their own right. Crack a book, cross a bridge, hop a spaceship, and check out these eight stories that are wonderfully extra when it comes to worldbuilding, creating children’s stories that can hold up to the classics, spinning off into picture books dr
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Woman finds slug-like creature while hiking on an Austin trail. Here s what experts think it is.
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DeAnn Fisher Kiser and her hiking Facebook friends are having a tough time identifying what she calls a mysterious slug-like creature she saw along Austin s Walnut Creek Trail on Sunday.DeAnn Fisher Kiser
DeAnn Fisher Kiser and her hiking Facebook friends are having a tough time identifying what she calls a mysterious slug-like creature she saw along Austin s Walnut Creek Trail on Sunday. I ve never seen anything like that before, said the avid hiker. I m on this trail fairly often, and that s something you don t normally see.
A marine biologist and conservationist has called out the sexism she s experienced in the industry as she urges more women to take on jobs to help save the planet.
Lauren Arthur, 34, was born in Edinburgh but lives and works at South Africa s Greater Kruger National Park, where she runs virtual safaris to educate viewers around the world on the wildlife she encounters.
Lauren s work has taken her around the world, from the Maldives to Mexico, and led to her being her chosen as an ambassador for the WWF Voices campaign for bio-diversity, but says there are still some people who underestimate her.