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Early Birds Are Already Flying South Submitted by northern w... on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 9:11am.
Earwigs: Remember Them Next Mother's Day Submitted by northern w... on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 2:00pm.
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Featured Thought Leader Do you remember the game of telephone when you were a child? One person would whisper something in someone's ear and then turn to the next person and do the same and so on. Invariably the story mutated with each telling and wa... Green Tips
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The yellow warbler is a tiny explosion of color, music and tenacity. Every spring these songbirds arrive from the tropics to our alder swamps, willow stands and wet thickets. The male glows neon yellow with blood-orange pinstripes and marble-black eyes. 
An earwig still evokes a shudder after many centuries, for the insect’s Old English name, earwicga
(”ear” and “worm”), suggests it might crawl into your ear when you are
asleep and do terrible things to your brain with its rear-facing
pincers. 