Archimedes Notebook

 Some mornings the fog rolls in and sticks around for a couple of hours. It's still cool, and the perfect time for a nature walk. Not on...

  I love the way my blueberry leaves turn brilliant red in the fall! So the other day I was trying to capture the color when I noticed this ...

 My garden is a great habitat for spiders. I pile dried grass and straw on the beds to help keep them from drying out - and spiders love to ...

 I have so many different kinds of spiders that hang out in my garden. Crab spiders, often matching the colors of the flowers, wait to ambus...

 I've got some Very Sneaky Spiders hanging out in my garden and surrounding area! They don't advertise their presence by spinning st...

  The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and Her Arachnid World War II Army      by Penny Parker Klostermann; illus. by Anne Lambelet  48 pages; ages 7...

   I headed out for a walk the other day, thinking I might find bees on some of the wildflowers. I stopped and looked, closer and closer.......

  Sometimes taking a five-minute nature break turns into ten minutes... as I sit and notice the things around me. A couple weeks ago I notic...

 Of all the spiders hanging out in my garden, I think this one ( Argiope aurantia ) is the prettiest. Look at the color and design! And look...

 Every day I look for a bit of beauty in the natural world around me. Some days I get lucky and find diamond-studded spider webs clinging to...

 I see lots of crab spiders in the flowers, and wolf spiders running through the mulch. But the other day I found this Nursery Web spider ha...

 Last week I shared Spider Flowers. This week it's Flower Spiders - more specifically, crab spiders that hang out in flowers. These spid...

    The last half of July was so hot that I had to head out early in the morning to get my walk in. Often, the valley was filled with a laye...

    A couple weeks ago I was weeding the garden and I noticed a web across the top of the bok choy. A funnel web - you can see the opening o...

 The best time to find spiderwebs is early morning. Especially on foggy days! On this day grass spider webs filled neighborhood lawns like p...

 So there I was, out in the garden counting pollinators when I saw this cute little crab spider hanging out on a milkweed leaf. It's eas...

April is national poetry month, so it’s only appropriate that I feature a book written in poetry. Or maybe it’s required… I seem to have mis...

It's never too cold - or snowy - to read about bugs! I say this as a person who, even in winter (or maybe especially in winter?) discove...

This is the time of year I see a lot of spiderwebs. They're stretched between plants, fence wires, bridge railings - pretty much anyw...

The best time to go looking for spiderwebs is early morning, particularly as the fog lifts. That way droplets of water still cling to the ...