Writings From the Farm
Over the last two decades, I’ve spent a lot of time in random places, reflecting on various aspects of agriculture, conservation, and the environment (see blog categories at the left).
Most of what I write lately, focuses on small scale farming, but we still dig things up from the archives related to travel, entomology, my deep love of place, and rural life. Learn more in the various posts, below!
Recent Posts
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I expanded my sentinel waxworm sampling to include more samples early in the Spring. While we’ve been sampling with waxworms after crop emergence for several years, this year I wanted to see if we could capture what was happening prior to crop planting. I was worried that since we had a long, cold, wet Spring…
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Recently, I was asked why entomologists spend so much time google image searching arthropods for something similar to a specimen they are trying to ID. I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, it seems like there are many, many families I am less familiar with, and google images are an excellent way to…
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Echinopla melanarctos I want it. Came across this guy randomly while trying to ID a minute beetle with fossorial legs (in part, by googling “Minute beetle with fossorial legs”). HT Splendor Awaits. Nobile, April, photographer (2009). Specimen: CASENT0178497. Available from: http://www.antweb.org/bigPicture.do?name=casent0178497&shot=p&number=1&project=allantwebants. Accessed 16 July 2013
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A conversation I just had with a 41 year old coworker: Me: Where did you meet your wife? Him: In Tierra del Fuego Me: Aww! That’s one of the places my Grampa rode his motorcycle to. Him (with much enthusiasm): REALLY?!? I would have LOVED to do something like that! Me: He was 65 when…
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CIMMYT is located about 5 km from the town of Texcoco de Mora, which is roughly 25 kilometers north and east of Mexico City. Apparently, Texcoco was once a major Aztec city, located on a former lake of the same name. There are several archaeological sites nearby, although I’m told that the town itself does…
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