Jeff Mitton
Aspen boletes build physical connections for mutualistic exchanges with quaking aspen.
The common wood nymph tastes with its feet and hears with its wings.
The beautiful male emerged in October, eager to mate but destined for disappointment because he emerged too late in the season, just an example of natural selection at workI received an invitation to photograph a black swallowtail butterfly that had
One puzzle leads to another question, as yet unanswered, about the cause.
Beavers may appear to be one of the most sedentary of species, living in a secure den or lodge in a pond with all of their food within a short waddle, but now, in Boulder Canyon and in Alaska, it is evident that they are on the move.
The wind that sculpts the stones also conspires with plants to transform a valley floor to a landscape of mounds with embedded plants.
Surprisingly, the robbers might have little to no effect on fitweed and might even benefit the plant.
Like the homely, warty toad transformed by a kiss to an enchanting prince, embarrassing excremental smears and lumps of who-knows-what metamorphose into delicate and lovely butterflies.
No doubt about it, sphinx moths are extraordinary; extinction is forever, and it would be tragic to lose such a remarkable group of moths.
The communities of pollinators and potential root hosts respond to climate change and the ever-increasing impact of humans on natural habitats.