Archimedes Notebook

 Not everything stripy and buzzy flying in my garden is a bee! Some of the hardest working pollinators are flower flies! Some folks call the...

Some of the easiest pollinators to catch "on the job" are bumble bees... they tend to stay focused on their work, and they don...

  This week is Pollinator week! And this year’s theme is Life on a Leaf: Celebrating Caterpillars and Host Plants . The theme highlights the...

  Meadows of the Sea: The Wonders of Seagrass  by Michelle Schaub; illus. by Khoa Le  40 pages; ages 5-8 Sleeping Bear Press, 2026 themes: ...

  The other morning I headed out to take photos of all the spiderwebs in the "tall grass" - a section of lawn we've let grow. ...