Posted on April 26, 2017
by Devon Bowker
Chrissy Bowker of Texas asks, “What’s this animal?” COMMON NAME: Yellow-crowned Night Heron SCIENTIFIC NAME: Nyctanassa violacea; ORDER, Pelecaniformes DIET: Mainly crustaceans, insects, and some types of fish. Occasionally, it may feed on small lizards, rodents, or other small birds. SIZE: Average height, 25 inches; Wingspan, 44 inches WEIGHT: Average…
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Category: Ask TWL, BirdsTags: bird, bird identification, birding, crustacean, heron, ID Help, identification, pelecaniformes, thewildlife, wading, wildlife, yellow, yellow-crowned night heron
Posted on April 24, 2017
by Devon Bowker
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Category: #RandomActOfNaturalism, VideoTags: bedrock, brittle prickly pear cactus, cactus, earth, Education, environment, granite, life, outcrop, Video
Posted on April 24, 2017
by Devon Bowker
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Category: #RandomActOfNaturalism, VideoTags: #RandomActOfNaturalism, biology, caterpillar, earth, Education, environment, insect, isabella tiger moth, life, moth, naturalism, Pyrrharctia isabella, Video, wooly bear
Posted on April 12, 2017
by Devon Bowker
Species: Malacosoma disstria Chrissy Bowker of Texas asks, “What’s this animal?” The caterpillar in the picture above is none other than the Forest Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria. They are commonplace in the eastern regions of US and Canada. Down in Texas, populations are sure…
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Category: Ask TWL, Insects and ArachnidsTags: blue, brown moth, caterpillar, defoliate, east, eastern tent caterpillar, forest, forest tent, forest tent caterpillar, moth, nest, pest, silk, spotted, web
Posted on April 11, 2017
by Devon Bowker
14 billion years ago, the universe as we know it didn’t exist. It was smaller than an atom and more hot and dense than anything we could imagine and then…BANG! The Big Bang, in less than a second, the most fantastic mess of all…
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Category: Eco-Break Season 1Tags: archaea, archaean, big bang, biological evolution, biology, earth, Eco Break, ecology, Education, eon, evolution, life, phanerozoic, planet earth, primordial soup, thewildlife, wildlife
