Lawn Conversion Tips

Spring is a time of year when many of us focus on clearing out the old to prepare for the new.  If you’ve watched or read anything by Marie Kondo, […]

The range of Bird’s Foot violet, Viola pedata, extends across most of the eastern United States. But wherever it occurs, this distinctive spring-flowering perennial lives on sandy soil. So [...]

While spring is still just getting started, the first of the Vineyard’s native bees are already on the wing. Queen bumblebees, having overwintered under the leaf litter, are starting to [...]

  What is your response when you notice rodent activity on your property? Do you go set some snap traps or do you deploy bait boxes with rodenticide? It’s reasonable […]

Promoting natural habitat is the best way to provide nesting opportunities for birds.  Dead trees are an excellent source for nesting cavities.  These snags also offer insects shelter where they [...]

Bat Week is an annual, international celebration of the role of bats in nature. October is also a month where we see lots of bats around – but mostly the […]

Over the course of 50 years, populations of terrestrial insectivorous birds have declined by about 2.9 billion individuals (Tallamy & Shriver, 2021). Recent research suggests a strong [...]

Perhaps because of their elongated shape, members of the fly family Therevidae have acquired the common name “stiletto flies.” This is a smallish fly family, widespread but said to be [...]

Human travel and commerce have completely rewritten the book on wildlife distribution. Deliberately or by accident, humans have transported many thousands of species from their native ranges to [...]

With 4 million contributors, more than 67 million records, and a third of a million species documented, iNaturalist might seem like a complete archive of biodiversity. But with an estimated […]