• North county, Pennsylvania weigh in on water

Birds, Wildlife & Beneficial Insects

• Accidental Orange Invader
• Bats
  • Bats - A Scary Surprise
  • The Truth About Bats!
• Bees
  • Controlling the friendly Carpenter Bee
  • The friendly, beneficial honeybee
• Beneficial Insects
• Beneficial Wasps
• Birds
  • Attracting and Keeping Bluebirds
  • Attracting Hummingbirds to a garden
  • Attracting Purple Martins
  • Attracting Winter Birds
  • Bird Gardening
  • Feed the Birds: Good for You & Your Garden
  • Feeding Birds In the Winter
  • Feeding the Birds in the Winter take 2
  • How to Attract Birds
• Butterfly Gardening
  • Butterfly gardening: A great source of enjoyment
  • Butterfly and Container Gardening
  • Monarch Butterflies
    • Monarchs Are Definitely Back
  • Starting a butterfly garden
• Eastern Grey Squirrels
• Lady bugs, The Beneficial Insect
• National Wildlife Federation’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program
• Spiders
  • Spiders
  • Spider Kin
• Toads in Your Garden
• Winterizing Your Garden for Our Wildlife Friends

Ecological Gardening & Native Plants

• A garden gone wild
• Alternative to Traditional Lawns
• "Companion planting" & organic gardening
• Controlling Japanese Beetles Without Use of Chemicals
• Effective Weed Control for Your Garden
• Environmentally Sound Fall Clean Up Practices in the Garden
• Ice Melting Products
• Integrated Pest Management
• Integrated Pest Management - Take II
• Native Plant Gardens
  • The Invasive are coming: Be Prepared
  • Invasive plants, Part II
  • Invasive Exotics Are Taking Over!
  • The down side of non-native plants
• Preparing a Sunny Wildflower Garden
• Preserving our Natural Habitat
• Selecting Native Trees for Your Yard
• The Hidden Side Effects of Chemical Weed Killers
• The Downside of Burn Barrels
• The Secret Life of the Soil
• Using fireplace ashes in your garden
• Wildlife Ponds and Pond Care
• Wildflower Meadows - An Alternative to Lawns
• Xerscaping - Water Wise Gardening

The Retired Ecologist:

• A Time for … Any Purpose?
• A Parliament of Owls
• A (moderately) Frabjous Day
• Adventures with bats
• Advertising for Disaster
• An Aging Mind Grapples with Euler, Diderot, and Biological Clocks
• An Analog Mind in a Digital World
• April, The Month of Fools and Showers
• Arrogant mice and humble bees
• Biological Clocks in the Devil's Playground
• Bird Species in Emmitsburg
• By the Numbers, Weather or not
• Christmas Comes (earlier) Once a Year
• Conversation with a Log
• Correlating the Weather
• Counting at Christmas
• Creating Chaos from Order
• Creeping into the New Year
• Curious thoughts about curiosity
• Defending the Home Front against Night Raiders
• Doing something about the weather
• Dog Days and Night Sounds
• Dog Day Lessons
• Earth Day 1 to Earth Day 42
• Economy of Nature & Ecology of Man
• Fire Flies
• Forever New
• Global Warming: Complex Questions, Simple Answers?
• Gossamer Days in Indian Summer
• Grandpa vs. the Internet
• Great Forest, Past and Future
• If Starlings Could Speak
• Ignoring the Signs
• In Praise of Irrational Exuberance
• In Praise of Rain
• In Praise of Weeds
• In Vino Veritas (I think)
• Invasion of the Alien Mustard
• Life Insurance for Squirrels
• Lions, Gorillas and Bears ...
• Lo, the Winter is (finally) Past
• Looking Forward and Back
• Loose screws in the Ecosystem
• Mountain Revisited
• November Moods
• Nuts to 2003
• Of Aging and Entropy
• Of Anniversaries and Lasting Influences
• Of Aesop, and Gershwin, & Feeding Birds in Winter
• Of Birds and Brains: a Lesson in Humility
• Of Bird’s Nest Fungi, and Luck, and Small Fall Things
• Of Butterflies and Bombs
• Of Christmases, Past and Present
• Of Elms and Orioles
• Of Fall and Passing
• Of Grapes and Foxes
• Of men and moon-walking mockingbirds
• Of Patriotism and Un-noticed Outcomes
• Of Poetry, and Science, and Growing Old on the Floodplain
• Of rain, and frogs, and the lack thereof
• Of Raspberries and (family) History
• Of Shoes...and Wooly Bears
• Of Slugs in Winter
• Of Spring Migrations, and the Lily Pad Problem
• Of Squirrels & Rabbits & How They Got That Way
• Of Systems, and Models, and Vulnerability
• Of Trees and Life
• Of Trees and Mortality
• Of Worms, Legends, and the Last Man Who Knew Everything
• On Growing, up and old
• On making it through the tough times
• Optimism in an Uncertain World
• Protecting the Homeland in Winter
• Quiet Fall
• Random Thoughts on the Last Walk of the Year
• Realities of the Myth of the Green Thumb
• Reflecting on the effects of Climate Change
• Reflections on King Solomon's Ring while Riding an Aged Lawnmower
• Remembering the Birth of an Era
• Remembering when Science was Fun
• Requiem for U. S. Route 40
• Requiescat in Pace, Lonesome George… et alii
• Singing Without Knowing Why
• Sunrise on a tangled web
• The Dog Days of Summer
• The ecology of illegal aliens
• The Five Seasons
• The Food Chain through the Kitchen Window
• The Hunger Moon
• The Metaphor of the
• The Merry, Melancholy Month of May
• The Need to Name, or, Santa Rosalia Laughs Last
• Old Dead Truck
• Of Fall, Tree Frogs, and the Minds of Children
• The plagues on all our houses
• The race is to the swifts... for now
• The Trouble with Science
• The Trouble With Silk
• The Search for an Ideal World
• The Song of Songs
• The 40^thAnniversary of 'Silent Spring'
• The war of the rodents
• Thoughts Between Naps on Anniversaries and Paradigm Shifts
• Thoughts on Reaching 100
• Tomato Stakes and Puffballs
• Songless September
• Spring is Here, I Hear
• Spring: Old Memories, New Hopes, and the Search for Wisdom
• Summer Evenings, Past & Present
• Un-learning about Worms
• Vacation Verses
• Vacatio!
• Walking with Open Eyes
• Watching Butterflies Flutter By
• Watching Time Go By
• Why We Have Robins in the Cold
• Why You Shouldn't Start an Herb Garden after You're 60
• Wild life
• Willow Rill: The Story of a Little Stream
• Wisdom from a Turtle in Indian Summer