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Photo of the Week – September 24, 2015
I showed up a little early for a meeting at our Platte River Prairies field headquarters this week. While waiting for the others to arrive, I took advantage of morning sunlight filtering through the...
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Photo of the Week – October 1, 2015
This has been a week of big black spiders. …In a good way. First, my wife brought home a huge black wolf spider one of her biology students caught. It stayed the weekend, and my stepson helped me...
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Photo of the Week – October 8, 2015
Ok, I know I post an awful lot of spider photos. I have a couple good excuses. First, I like spiders. I just do. Second, for whatever reason, my eyes seem to find spiders as I walk through...
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The Beauty and Complexity of Prairie in 30 Seconds
I frequently give presentations on prairies to various groups of people. With some audiences, I discuss fairly technical strategies for prairie restoration or management. Often, however, my primary...
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Hubbard Fellowship Blog – Wasp Slumber Party
This post was written by Evan Barrientos, one of our Hubbard Fellows. Evan is a talented writer and photographer and I encourage you to check out his personal blog. I was enjoying a sunset walk in the...
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Photo of the Week – December 4, 2015
We had a winter storm pass through our area at the tail end of the Thanksgiving weekend. After a light coating of ice, we got a couple inches of fluffy snow. Monday was a gloomy overcast day – too...
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Hubbard Fellowship Blog: Ant Swarm (and Lunch)
This post was written by Evan Barrientos, one of our Hubbard Fellows. Evan is a talented writer and photographer and I encourage you to check out his personal blog. If you would like to see more of...
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An Aquatic Stick Insect
While my wife Kim and I were at the Niobrara Valley Preserve for several days in December, we spotted a small creature neither of us had seen before. We were walking along the edge of the river...
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Monarch Conservation Strategies
Last week, I attended a conference aimed at creating a statewide conservation plan for monarch butterflies. The meeting was really informative and thought-provoking. I learned a great deal about the...
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Photo of the Week – March 4, 2016
Last summer in Minnesota, I saw my all-time favorite insect for only the third time ever. The camouflaged looper is a tiny inchworm that disguises itself with bits of the flower it is feeding on. It...
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Photo of the Week – April 28, 2016
During a walk in our family prairie last week, I found a spider web spanning the entrance to a badger tunnel. If you look closely, you can see the spider near the top of the tunnel entrance. When I...
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Hubbard Fellowship Blog- Marvels in the Mud
This post was written by Evan Barrientos, one of our Hubbard Fellows. Evan is a talented writer and photographer and I encourage you to check out his personal blog. If you would like to see more of...
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Prairie Dog Spider
Prairie dog towns are known to provide habitat for many species of plants and animals. Some of those are attractive and/or popular wildlife species like burrowing owls and ferruginous hawks. Others...
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A Week in the Sandhills
I’m in the Nebraska Sandhills all this week, doing field work. Being in the middle of 12 million acres of intact native prairie has its advantages, but there’s not much time or internet connectivity...
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Photo of the Week – June 17, 2016
I’m just back from a great week in the Nebraska Sandhills. I saw an amazing array of wildlife, invertebrates, plants and landscapes. Of the many wildflowers in bloom this week, none punctuated the...
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Platte River Prairies Field Day – THIS WEDNESDAY
This Wednesday (June 22) is our next Platte River Prairies Field Day. Admission is free, and there will be several hikes/presentations to choose from during each of the four session periods during the...
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Photo of the Week – July 1, 2016
I often tell people, “I’m not an insect expert, I’m an insect enthusiast.” I don’t spend nearly enough time immersed in the vagaries of invertebrate taxonomy and biology to know much more than some...
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A Crappy Job But Somebody’s Got To Do It
Oh man, there are so many choices for titles when writing a blog post about dung beetles… While my wife and I were hiking around the Niobrara Valley Preserve a few weeks ago, Kim spotted a couple dung...
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Photo of the Week – July 21, 2016
Lately, I’ve had some great opportunities to photograph big charismatic animals like bison and cute mammals like prairie dogs. During the same period, however, I’ve also managed to make the kind of...
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Platte River Prairies Field Day – August 6, 2016
Our next Field Day at The Nature Conservancy’s Platte River Prairies will be Saturday August 6. We hope that by making it on a Saturday we will make it more accessible to families and people whose...
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