Also 26 butterflies and 18 fruit-flies. This is the tally from the first year of Dr. Thomas Werner’s surveys of order Lepidoptera (the moths and butterflies) and Family Drosophilidae (fruit-flies) in the order Diptera. Seven of the butterly species, 160 of the moths, and all of the fruit-flies are new records …
A new publication by Dr. Kerry Woods, Bennington College, uses long-term study plots at the Huron Mountains to gain unique insight into the carbon status of old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood forests. The combined living and dead biomass/carbon pools in the stands sampled are very large for eastern North America, but dynamics …
Cody Porter, a grad student at University of Wyoming, is hoping to determine the taxonomic identity of red crossbills. Red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) — sparrow-sized finches — are nomads. They have no set range or territory but wander in flocks, over vast regions in search of conifer seeds. If a …
