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Category Archives: Botany
This Week at Hilton Pond (1-10 May 2012)—“West Virginia Wildflower Portfolio (Spring 2012)”
The first week in May we’re always in southern West Virginia, banding birds and lecturing for the New River Birding & Nature Festival. In 2012 we actually got to go on a field trip that resulted in our lifer Cerulean Warbler AND provided ample opportunity to shoot lots of nature images. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Botany, Photography, This Week at Hilton Pond
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A Million Points of Data
Watching and reporting the flowering of a nearby vine maple, Acer circinatum, turned into the millionth observation submitted through NPN’s online observation program, Nature’s Notebook. Lucille Tower, an amateur scientist from Portland, Ore. submitted the record.
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This Week at Hilton Pond—“Tulips From The Treetops”
Thanks to a little hail and strong winds, “This Week at Hilton Pond” the forest floor was littered with Tulip Tree flowers that are usually so high in the canopy we can barely see them with binoculars. Continue reading
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This Week at Hilton Pond—“Hummingbird Flowers, Early Spring Edition”
We’re often asked what Ruby-throated Hummingbirds eat if they come back in early spring before there’s a noticeable flower bloom. Among other things they consume tree sap and tiny insects, but there may be more blossoms out there than you think. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Botany, Ornithology, Photography, This Week at Hilton Pond
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What’s Really Up With Roundup?
Last Monday I posted about how Monsanto’s popular herbicide Roundup has led to the development of super-weeds. Since then I’ve seen some additional articles, and friends have sent me some links to articles that lay a multitude of ills at the feet of this product or, more to the point, its active ingredient Glyphosate. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Botany, Environment, Experimentation, Microbiology, Projects, Science Fair
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Thoreau’s Notebooks Shed Light on Changing Climate
Most of the raw data that Thoreau collected has remained unpublished until very recently, when a team of scientists, biology professor at Boston University, and fellow researcher Abraham Miller-Rushing went looking for historical climatological data. Continue reading
Posted in Amateur Science, Botany, climate, History of Science, Phenology
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Citizen Science Musings: Raising Superpests
Last week there was an article about a letter sent by several scientists to the EPA regarding the emergence of corn rootworms (Diabrotica spp.) capable of consuming genetically modified corn that was designed specifically to kill them. Continue reading
Posted in Botany, Citizen Science Musings, Entomology, Environment, Evolution
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Making Music From Tree Rings
This natural composition transforms into musical notes the width of the growth rings of a canopy branch of a Texas bois d’arc tree that was downed by a flood in 2010. Continue reading
Posted in Botany, Electronics, Invention, Uncategorized
Tagged avant-garde, experimental music, music
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Making, Maintaining, and Using Serious Field Notes
But if you want to do serious natural science you have to keep good field notes. Continue reading
Fossils Collected by Charles Darwin Rediscovered
British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Botany, Breaking News, Evolution, General Interest, Paleontology
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