Understory plants & the caterpillars who love them
Searching for disappearing understory specialist moths and butterflies and the plants they depend on.
Fastland
Nature and conservation on the coast
Mysterious horseshoe crab egg meiofauna
There is much to learn about the interaction of the meiofauna with horseshoe crab eggs. It would stand to reason that the notoriously nutritious horseshoe crab egg would be capitalized on by the creatures living under the sand. Meiofauna drawing © Den Store Danske
A good shovel is hard to find (or how I count horseshoe crab eggs)
Entrenching shovels are great for counting horseshoe crab egg clusters. They should also be in every zombie hunter's toolkit.
a stochastic event on the Delaware Bay
Environmental stochasticity is "unpredictable spatiotemporal fluctuation in environmental conditions". I think I experienced such a thing when I was caught in a hail storm on the Delaware Bay last week.
Beetle gets a 1630 mile range extension
(A tiger beetle, although this VW was also sighted on a Brazilian beach)
The opposite of resilient
The practice of salt marsh diking turns a normally resilient system into a very brittle system at the edge of collapse.
Maranhão
Despite the huge numbers of shorebirds using the area, Maranhão, Brazil has received only limited conservation and research attention outside of Brazil.
Finding Coxe Hall
This old house is one of the oldest in the county. In this post I put its original location on the map.
