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Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees by Nalini M. Nadkarni University of California Press, 2008. How best to describe Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees? A compendium of facts, anecdotes, literature, and images pertaining to human interaction with trees? Tree canopy biologist, Nalini Nadkarni, has drawn on her intimate […]
Welcome to the 22nd edition of Circus of the Spineless! I considered coming up with a theme for this edition, but in the end, I went with the one unifying quality that I found as I made my way around the web from one blog to the next. I was time and again struck by […]
For the past couple of weeks, as soon as the air temperature warms each morning, junior hoppers of all sorts emerge to bask in the sunlight on grass stalks and plants leaves. This year, I’ve been making an attempt to photograph some of these grasshopper, cricket and katydid nymphs. Most of the grasshoppers are rather […]
In August 2005, I spent quite a bit of time photographing grasshoppers. One of my accidental discoveries was that some species, when disturbed, will regurgitate copious amounts of dark, foamy liquid. The grasshopper in the above photo – a species of spur-throated grasshopper – is just beginning to produce fluid. At times, it was actually […]
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer McClelland & Stewart, 2006 235 pages Recently, I posted a review of the documentary Being Caribou. Having enjoyed the movie, I decided to read Heuer’s book in the hope that it would fill in more of the details of this epic journey […]