Category: Nature

  • J. Gordon Edwards Entomology Museum

    Our youngin is interested in entomology so we were happy to get a chance to visit the J. Gordon Edwards Entomology Museum at San Jose State University. We were very grateful to Dr. Fred Larabee for being up for showing us around; from his enthusiastic introduction to the collection and the work being done around…

  • Viceroys aren’t faking it

    I finally finished Doug Tallamy‘s book “Bringing Nature Home” today. I’d highly recommend it. You might also like this talk from him and his site homegrownnationalpark.org. One aside in the book that caught my attention: One of my favorite butterflies, the viceroy (Limenitis archippus), is most commonly found near willow hosts… The adults are the…