The stink bugs I usually see are brown, but this one I snapped a photo of last summer is a green stink bug. You should be able to find this stink bug throughout North America as you are on your nature scavenger hunt. One summer during college I assisted in an aquatics laboratory. Any time …
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Before Cameras Existed
Imagine you see an amazing flower before your eyes, but you don’t have a camera. How could you capture it to tell your friends exactly what it looks like? Would you stare and study it to try and memorize every detail? Gosh, what if you forgot how many petals it had or if the leaf …
It’s a Tulip Tree!
I first learned about tulip trees when I attended college at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. In my plant identification class we learned the nitty-gritty details of classifying trees by their bark texture, leaf shape, arrangement of branches, flowers and so on. There were two trees in particular we learned about that stuck with me. One …
The Purplicious Garden
My adventure in gardening this summer was all about one thing: the color purple. I ordered most of my plants through a seed catalog, so I’d have a greater selection, and then it was go time. There were some mishaps, such as the day I set my itty-bitty ‘Black Cherry’ tomato seedlings outside on my …
It’s Chicory!
A few years ago I said to my husband, “Ugh, I really gotta dig out that chicory from the grass next to the road.” To which he responded, “What’s chicory?” Well, I couldn’t believe he’d never heard of chicory, “You know, that purple flowering plant that’s next to each mile of highway you’ve ever driven …