Curious About … Thatching Ants?
Western thatching ants are emerging from their nests and colonies are active with workers tending the thatch. Continue Reading →
Category: Insects
Ideas for Beating the Heat
The extreme heat forecast for the coming week might provide an opportunity to stay inside and do some armchair natural history adventuring. This is National Pollinator Week , so you might want to learn a bit about our Pacific Northwest pollinators. Continue Reading →
Leaves are not Litter!
This week, my yard turned golden with maple and aspen leaf fall. It was perfect timing when my email in-box announced the The Xerces Society’s blog post “Leaves Are Not Continue Reading →
Curious About … Going Native In Your Yard?
Using native plants as home landscaping gardens can result in easy-care, beautiful displays that support native pollinators and use little water. Continue Reading →
WENATCHEE NATURALIST STORIES: CHAPTER 15
East Wenatchee resident and Wenatchee Naturalist, Keith Minard, enrolled in the fall 2018 course as a retiree, wanting to rekindle his childhood habit of keeping a field journal. He dug Continue Reading →
Two Leading Natural History Authors Speaking in Wenatchee!
Next week, the Wenatchee Public Library is featuring two terrific Washington authors, Robert Michael Pyle and Jack Nisbet. Both are regionally and nationally acclaimed natural historians, gifted writers of award-winning Continue Reading →
Citizen Science Tools for everyone
We live in an exciting time where the internet has birthed a new field: Citizen Science. The Oxford English Dictionary recently defined citizen science as “scientific work undertaken by members Continue Reading →
Wenatchee Naturalist Stories Chapter 2
Long-time Manson resident, Nicki Anderson, made the long drive back and forth to Wenatchee for 12 weeks to participate in the fall Wenatchee Naturalist course. She has long been an Continue Reading →
The Amazing Tale of Sagebrush Galls
If you’ve stopped trailside to look at a big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata), it’s likely you’ve noticed grape-like growths attached to a leaf or stem. Some are round, smooth and reddish, Continue Reading →