Tag: nature nerd

• Mud-Puddling: The Dirty Truth About Butterflies

  

  Ever have a butterfly land on your skin and start licking you and thought “Awe, I’ve got a new best bro!” Well, you were wrong. Butterflies have a dirty secret!

  Devon Bowker

  August 18, 2018

  Animals, Insects and Arachnids, The Wild Life Blog

  animals, biology, butterfly, butterfly drink urine, butterfly eating poop, butterfly in mud, butterfly on poop, calyptra, carrion, devon bowker, devonthenatureguy, entomology, environment, Gluphisia crenata, hematophagy, Hemiceratoides hieroglyphica, insect, lachryphagy, lepidoptera, life, moth, mud puddling, naturalism, naturalist, nature, nature nerd, puddling, top, vampire moth, wild, wildlife

• Gulls and the Concrete Sea: Why do Seagulls Love Parking Lots?

  

  Most know them as seagulls, a name which implies a proclivity for life at sea. Yet this familiar moniker is neither accurate (scientifically speaking), nor seems to fall in line with a universal observation—gulls love parking lots, whatever their distance from the salty sea

  Devon Bowker

  August 9, 2018

  Animals, Birds, The Wild Life Blog

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