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The Giant Leopard Moth
By Ashton Nichols On a huge abandoned tractor tire, in the scrubby woodlot back behind the house, I find a jet-black wooly-worm style caterpillar, as long and as thick as my thumb, his prickly bristles pin-sharp to the touch. An more »
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Tagged Leopard Moth Adult, Leopard Moth Caterpillar, New England, North America
Crazy Cardinals
by Ashton Nichols Do you have a crazy cardinal? We do, and he is so crazy right now that we are starting to worry. Let me begin at the beginning. We had our first crazy cardinal when we moved to more »
Snow Baths
By Ashton Nichols Like many, if not most, readers of The Roost, we have recently had the coldest cold-snap in recorded memory. In our neck of the Eastern woods, the mercury has hovered in the single digits for days, and more »