Delaware Nature Society started the summer iNaturalist contest on June 1 to encourage folks to visit Ashland Nature Center and use the iNaturalist app or website to record their observations. These observations are automatically pulled into the Ashland Nature Center Biodiversity iNaturalist project, where we catalogue plants and animals that observers report. For more details, …
Ian Stewart These are the opening words of the poem ‘To a mouse’, written by the legendary haggis-eating Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1785 (which also contains the famous line oft-paraphrased as ‘The best-laid schemes of mice and men go often askew’). Although this is an apt description of mice it is also used to …
By Lori Athey, Habitat Outreach Coordinator It is high summer now and my early summer flowers are looking a bit tired while the late summer/fall show has yet to begin. Nonetheless, there is a lot of wildlife activity in my garden right now. The pollinators are all over the Echinacea/Purple Coneflower, Coreopsis, Butterflyweed and Beebalm, …
By Derek Stoner, Conservation Project Coordinator and Sheila Vincent, Public Program Coordinator Right now, the last generation of Monarch butterflies in our region are completing their life cycles. The Monarchs we are seeing now are likely three to four generations removed from their ancestors that arrived here in early summer. Last week, photographer and DNS board …
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