Some plants get so hungry that they eat flies,spiders,and even small frogs.What's more amazing is that these plants occur naturally (in special environments) in every state.In fact,they're found on every continent except Antarctica.You've probably seen a Venus'flytrap.It's often sold in ...
Sadly locked this afternoon, I’ve read that the rooms house Ireland’s Memorial Records, eight volumes listing the names of Irish soldiers who died in the Great War. From the photographs I’ve seen of these beautifully illuminated books, they are truly beautiful objects. The artist was Harry...
presence will be detrimental to its wholesomeness, and include small mammals (e.g. black and brown rats and mice), crawling insects (e.g. cockroaches, ants, beetles), flying insects (e.g. houseflies, blowflies, fermentation flies, moths, bees, wasps) and birds (e.g. seagulls and ...
howeverAnimal Crackersprovides a platform for the contemplation of another point of view. Exposing a variety of different perspectives, we urge you to consider what relationship you have with the animals in your life, while considering their place in this ever-changing world. ...
I'm sorry, Mr Jones hasn't come back for his business trip. The car factory is a big employer in the area. Can you believe the mags. Can you believe the magazine sells seven thousands copies a month. A lawyer has been hired to handle the case. Do you know how much the house is...
covering the threshold with cardboard decorated in hand-drawn pawprints to let our pets know where they should walk until the floor dried. Light poured into the back of the house and onto our chalkboard, where Mark had written, “Audubon Society of Central Maryland” and “Adkins Arboretum....
It's not everyday that you get to see suchinteresting examples of gynandromorphisms.Even the birds can do it too. And interestingly, I just learned that order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) has an interesting sex determination system, whereby the male / female outcome is determined by th...
On October 6 last fall I visited Aton Forest in northwestern Connecticut, in part to look for some leafminers I had found there the previous year on red oak (Fagaceae:Quercus rubra). I found what I was looking for (mines of a few different moths in the families Gracillariidae, Nepticulid...
Standing in the mini-woodland behind her house last spring, Molly McElwee and I were surprised to see a hummingbird flying straight toward us. “Go that way! Go that way!” Molly whispered, nodding her head in the direction of the coral honeysuckle trellis up the hill. ...
mole / mEUl; mol/ n small permanent dark spot on the human skin 痣; 色素痣. Cf 参看 freckle. mole / mEUl; mol/ n 1 small dark-grey fur-covered animal with tiny eyes, living in tunnels which it makes…