ButterflyFest is an annual fun-for-all-ages festival to celebrate backyard wildlife with an emphasis on pollinators!
and handmade soaps, soy wax candles and herbal eye pillows The Painting Sister: Hand-painted
Contrary to our current dilemma, the Taino always knew where their fish came from „Here, the fishes are so unlike ours that it is amazing; there are some like dorados, of the brightest colors in the world—blue, yellow, red, multi-colored, colored in a thousand ways, and the colors so bright tha
of extreme low tide you could walk out on the dry lake bed and pick up fish by hand
Echeneis naucrates These are very recognizable fish because of their highly modified dorsal fin that is an oval shaped sucking disc. They are as long as 43 inches, and slender, with lower jaws that extend much further than upper. They attach themselves to sharks, turtles, whales, large bony fish,
In captivity, the sharksucker can be feed pieces of clam and fish by hand.
Lorena Endara, PhD Workflow Manager This has been an incredible opportunity to learn about bryophytes and lichens and to apply what I have learnt about collection and project management. Most importantly, I feel really lucky to have met an incredible group of fun and smart undergraduate stud
Having experienced these trials and revelations first-hand, I may with little doubt
Somniosus microcephalus This large, heavy-set shark grows to an average 8-14 feet long but can get to be 24 feet. It has a short, rounded snout, small eyes, and relatively small dorsal fins. Although it is an apex predator, it is a slow swimmer, and likely ambushes its prey and scavenges for
Greenland shark dentition: upper and lower teeth from the right-hand side, at the
Caranx hippos This large fish is wonderfully abundant in the Atlantic Ocean, and popular resource for both commercial and sports fishers alike. The juvenile is striped vertically along its sides, but as it matures, it changes to an even greenish-bluish above and silver or golden below. Usually ad
Adults, on the other hand, usually occupy upstream currents, reefs, offshore areas
It’s pre-dawn. Your camera and lenses are packed, and you’ve pulled yourself out of bed before sunrise for early morning photography. Nature photography takes planning, persistence, patience and grit. But you return home with images you are technically unhappy with. Perhaps they were not exposed pr
And in this dream scenario, you’d have a professional photographer on hand to answer
Although St. Augustine was small, remote and poor, life in the town was governed by traditional Spanish municipal organization, with a mayor and city officials in addition to the military and crown-appointed government officials. The daily, weekly and monthly practices of the Catholic Church were a
done in Indian pots, using corn ground on a metate (grinding stone) with a mano (hand
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 190 miles of streams and rivers in Florida and Georgia as critical habitat for a rare species of freshwater mussel once thought to be extinct. The new ruling, which went into effect Aug. 2, outlines protective measures for the Suwannee moccasinshell,
To find them, biologists have to slowly sift through sediment by hand.
Amblyraja radiata These cool-water skates have rounded diamond shaped pectoral disks with stout tails, usually muddy brown on top, and white underneath. They are named for the scattered thorny denticles along their spines, edges of pectoral fins, and tails, interspersed with smaller ‚prickles‘. T
Males, on the other hand, lose most of the thorns on the pectoral fins except along
