All about land snails
Snails are little stealth creatures, living around us mostly unnoticed. Yet, they’re the second highest number of species.
Monthly Archives: January, 2015
All about earthworms
The lowly earthworm, they’re given such short shrift. We should be celebrating them. They quietly work magic right under our very feet.
All about cockroaches (most are beneficial and stay outdoors)
Cockroaches have been around for more than 300 million years. You may have heard it said they’ll still be here long after humans are extinct!
All about earwigs, curious victims of a baseless myth
An old superstition warns that earwigs crawl into people’s ears and burrow into their brains to lay eggs — the reason they’re called earwigs.
All about flies
Flies have a notorious reputation, but most are helpful pollinators of crops and flowers, and recyclers of plant, animal matter into organic nutrients.
True bugs – the good, the bad, the ugly!
True bugs are an interesting, diverse group of insects, and the only ones officially called “bugs.” They’re beneficial as predators of pest insects.
Dragonflies and damselflies – ‘Top Guns’ of the insect world
Dragonflies and damselflies are among the most beautiful insects. They’re predators of nuisance insects like gnats, flies, mosquitoes.
All about beetles
Beetles comprise 30 percent of all insects and about 30 percent of all other animal species. And millions more yet to be discovered!
All about butterflies and moths
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects, second only to beetles in the number of species described so far. They date back at least 50 million years.
All about box turtles
Most of us call any turtle a “turtle.” Environmentalists and researchers, however, make a distinction between “turtle,” “tortoise” and “terrapin.’
