Updates: 2013-10-05 : Guest post on Garden Rant . 2013-09-26 : Thanks to the Brokelyn link, the petition surges past 2,500, adding 800 new...

Updated 2013-09-05: CORRECTION - The white-flowering plant is Eupatorium hyssopifolium , Hyssop-leaf Throughwort, not E. perfoliatum , Com...

Sign the Petition to Restore Science to Brooklyn Botanic Garden ! (Added 2013-09-16) Updates : 2013-08-29: Added more links. I will conti...

Setting aside for a moment the less-than-appealing staging, this is a beautiful creature. This is Dolichovespula maculata , the Bald-Faced...

Philanthus gibossus , Beewolf, on Pycnanthemum muticum , Clustered Mountain-Mint, in my native plant gardens this past weekend. This thir...

Cupido comyntas , Eastern Tailed-Blue. A lifer butterfly for me. Very lucky to get a few good shots of it while it was resting, wings ope...

I Am Not a Honeybee Earlier this evening, I was interviewed on Sex and Politics Radio , a program broadcast on Brooklyn College Radio . I...

My front garden bloomed all the colors of the rainbow just in time for this past Pride Weekend. The plants in bloom include natives , hei...

2013-12-29 : Identified as Physocephala tibialis by Aaron Schusteff , Contributing Editor of BugGuide. A few weeks ago, I tweeted: 2013...

Amphion floridensis , Nessus Sphinx Moth, on Rhododendron viscosum , Swamp Azalea, in my urban backyard native plant garden and wildlife hab...