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Choosing A Stately Bird
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
Forty-three of our States and the District of Columbia have selected a bird to represent them as an emblem. In the majority of the States this popularly-chosen avian representative has been officially recognized and in ...
May The Good Work Go On
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
In the general scheme of gardening for pleasure, a background of green is always necessary for a proper display of color in our delphiniums. Recently the writer saw a background consisting of a wall covered ...
All Praise The Tidy Sand-Hopper
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
The seaweed that drifts ashore on the daily tide will be reduced to fibers. The shell will be purged of its content. The bones of the fish will be cleaned, and the crab's claw hollowed. ...
Plankton: Nourishing Soup-Stock Of The Sea
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
That vast and estimable dame we know as the ocean has a determined antipathy for all untidiness. So varied and prolific is the life she nurtures that death and dissolution are forever in her tides. ...
The High Wall Of Lava
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
All of the comparatively few scientists who have visited the elephant seal beach of Guadalupe Island have been struck by the almost total absence of females and young; yet the herd is increasing. Fifteen years ...
Elephants Of The Sea
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
My dream to see the famous elephant seals of Guadalupe Island seemed entirely out of reach on numerous occasions. Five times I had started for the Island, but on each occasion something came up to ...
Motion Pictures Are Worthless Without Motion
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
The majority of the birds of prey nest early in the spring. One of the common species of North America is the red-shouldered hawk, Buteo lineatus lineatus, which builds its homes from the Atlantic to ...
The Hairy Sand Ant
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
The so-called wood-boring wasps, Trypoxylon, which are not borers at all, but merely users of holes in any convenient substance, possess very weak poison, as I well know from having had it demonstrated upon me ...
Less Inclined To Rob The Hive
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
Is the toxicology of honeybee stings understood? Does the food of this bee have anything to do with the severity of the poison? It is known that summer aster yields honey that is slightly bitter; ...
Bees & Wasps: Both Social, And Solitary
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
Are there any more vivid memories of childhood than those of the berry picking and swimming expeditions that were turned into swift, ragged retreats by hornets, bumble-bees and yellow-jackets? These "ladies"-for only the females have ...
The Innately Beautiful Forms Of Nature
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
In the lowly cabbage, the fragrant onion, the more aristocratic artichoke there is utility. They boast vitamins and nourishment, but are they beautiful? Offhand one would smile tolerantly and reply, "Well, hardly,"-proving the fallacy of ...
A Beauty Much Appreciated
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
Of the orchids, dainty tribe of practical jokers, one of the cleverest is the magenta-flowered grass pink, Calopogon pulchellus. She invites a flying guest to dine and places before him artificial viands. She gives him ...
A True Seahorse Posture
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
If it is true that the eggs require four weeks to develop, then a fathom or two down, among the eel-grass and seaweeds of Castle Harbour, a certain seahorse was courted, married and deserted on ...
The Abandoned Cotton Plantation
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
Forest devastation, and wastage by erosion is not restricted to the uplands of America. Millions of acres of formerly productive alluvial land along streams have been seriously impaired or ruined by the deposition of inert ...
Virgin Forests Ruthlessly Wasted
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
We have been in the habit of turning to other countries for examples of lands, denuded of their timber, their soil washed away by the unleashed waters. We are urged to look at the bleak ...
The Illusive Yellow Throat
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
The Baltimore oriole is one of our birds that eat the cotton boll weevil, as well as the larvae of the click beetle, plant and wood lice, spiders, wasps and grasshoppers. It nests in eastern ...
Home-Making Time For Songbirds
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
All is bustle about the house. Keen little eyes inspect eaves and windowsills, veranda vine, and shade tree. Blithe songs and chatterings announce that June-home-making time for most of our song birds-has arrived. Mr. and ...
Spiders In The Garden
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
Watching for their prey in the center of a radiating geometrical snare, we often find the garden spiders. The beauty of their vertical orb-webs and the large size of these strikingly marked creatures always attract ...
The Grapes Of John Burroughs
By David Bunch · 15 years ago
It is said of the Naturalist John Burroughs that he never had to work very hard - but then nor did he seem to work very hard in his writing: just expressing his ideas simply ...
Heat your Household with Solar Energy
By Matt Wooledge · 15 years ago
If electrical and gas become tough to manage you are going to wish to contemplate heating your property using the sunlight. Solar energy will be the warmth that comes in the sunshine down for the ...