February 2nd, 2010
I had the good fortune to enjoy a vacation in the Caribbean this past week, on which the first stop was Key West. Though the weather drove me away from the beach, I was able to tour the Ernest Hemingway House and take in the considerable population of semi-domestic cats who have free reign of [...]
April 17th, 2008
As much fear as they may inspire, carpenter bees are in fact quite harmless. That hover-and-stare we all interpret as confrontational is in fact the bee asking, “Hey! Wanna screw?”
May 8th, 2007
Is there any invertebrate creepier than the house centipede (AKA “thousand-legger”)? I grew up in Upstate New York, and had never encountered one of these until I first moved to southeastern PA around 1993. The first time I saw one skitter across the living room while I was watching TV, I [...]
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