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Mimicry

Oct 15, 2012 | Don Scallen | Notes from the Wild

Like everything in nature, mimicry is complex and nuanced.

Whales, wheat and Wonderland

Sep 13, 2012 | Douglas G. Pearce | Autumn 2012 | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments

Alice’s True Adventure “There was never a March Hare, a Cheshire Cat, or a hookah-smoking caterpillar. The mushroom upon which the caterpillar sat, however, is real. The iconic Amanita muscaria,…

Dragonflies

Aug 28, 2012 | Don Scallen | Blogs | Notes from the Wild

Dragonflies have been on Earth an incredibly long time, way before the appearance of the first dinosaurs.

Where the Wild Things Are

Aug 17, 2012 | Cecily Ross | Food

Known as the witch of Mono Centre, Lisa Yates is a wizard in the kitchen, transforming ordinary weeds into uncommon victuals


Food for Thought

Aug 17, 2012 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues

Only 16 per cent of watermelons now have seeds, down from 42 per cent in 2003. Alas, it is unlikely that the world record for spitting a watermelon seed will be broken.

Hobo Wally

Aug 9, 2012 | Online Editor | Web Extras

“King Of The Hole” by Hobo Wally (a quarry song) “Walk with me, Stop the Quarry” by Hobo Wally -Melancthon Quarry

Giant Swallowtail Butterflies

Aug 9, 2012 | Don Scallen | Notes from the Wild

Giant swallowtail caterpillars are branded as “orange dogs” in the American south because they eat the foliage of citrus crops including orange trees.

Bobolinks, Grasslands and Forks of the Credit Provincial Park

Jul 25, 2012 | Don Scallen | Notes from the Wild

Bobolinks, though, are only one patch in the quilt of the glorious grassland ecosystem that exists at the Forks.

Polyphemus Moths

Jun 24, 2012 | Don Scallen | Notes from the Wild

Moth communication hints at the wealth of cryptic messaging all around us.

Battling the bottle

Jun 19, 2012 | Jeff Rollings | Back Issues

A protest over Nestlé taking water in Erin is the latest skirmish between local residents and international corporations with sights set on Headwaters’ natural resources. But Erin’s lost water may be just a drop in the bucket.

The Art of Protest

Jun 19, 2012 | Ella Soper | Back Issues

Quarry opposition has produced an explosion of creativity as artists, in groups and individually, have joined ranks in protest, brandishing paintbrushes, cameras and musical instruments.

Passenger Pigeons: And then there were none

Jun 19, 2012 | Chris Wedeles | Back Issues

Flocks of passenger pigeons once streamed from horizon to horizon above our hills. But they were driven to extinction in less than one human lifespan.