Our Window on Nature

October is a month when the world is full of young spiders leaving home. Wisps of silken thread fill the air. Sunlight glints off gossamer parachutes following the whims of the wind. Young spiders break their ties with home by flying away on wings they build themselves.
Most of the 3,000 kinds of spiders in the […]

A ranger at the entrance to Everglades National Park announced to us that he had both good and bad news to report. The bad news - about 40 species of mosquitoes live in the park. The good news - members of at least seven of these species don’t bite.
It could be worse. Worldwide some 3,000 […]