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Beauty in Nature - 50plus LIFE
  • The Beauty in Nature: Wolf Spiders and Fishing Spiders

    One spring evening, I saw a wolf spider crossing our street in front of our suburban house. Fearing a casualty on the street, I chased that spider off it.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Life in a Patch of Trees

    During the late afternoon of June 10 of this year, I was on our lawn in New Holland enjoying sun-soaked green trees and shrubbery and listening to mourning doves and house finches.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Small, Local Snakes

    As adults, ring-necked snakes and brown snakes are a little over a foot long and slender. Both are common species in southeastern Pennsylvania and the eastern two-thirds of the United States.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Small, Local Snakes

    As adults, ring-necked snakes and brown snakes are a little over a foot long and slender. Both are common species in southeastern Pennsylvania and the eastern two-thirds of the United States.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Fake Eyes Save Lives

    July, August, and September are the months of insects in southeastern Pennsylvania. And many kinds of insects have unique ways to protect themselves, including exhibiting large, fake eyes that frighten away would-be predators.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Fake Eyes Save Lives

    July, August, and September are the months of insects in southeastern Pennsylvania. And many kinds of insects have unique ways to protect themselves, including exhibiting large, fake eyes that frighten away would-be predators.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Diverged and Converged Turtles

    Eastern box turtles, Blanding’s turtles, and wood turtles are beautifully colored, camouflaged species in the northeastern United States. These species demonstrate divergence (branching out) and convergence (coming together).

  • The Beauty in Nature: Diverged and Converged Turtles

    Eastern box turtles, Blanding’s turtles, and wood turtles are beautifully colored, camouflaged species in the northeastern United States. These species demonstrate divergence (branching out) and convergence (coming together).

  • The Beauty in Nature: Woodies and Hoodies

    Wood ducks and hooded merganser ducks are not closely related but have characteristics in common because they share nesting habitats near creeks and ponds in woodlands in much of the eastern United States.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Woodies and Hoodies

    Wood ducks and hooded merganser ducks are not closely related but have characteristics in common because they share nesting habitats near creeks and ponds in woodlands in much of the eastern United States.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Earliest Nesters

    Majestic bald eagles and handsome great horned owls have much in common, though they are in different bird families.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Earliest Nesters

    Majestic bald eagles and handsome great horned owls have much in common, though they are in different bird families.

  • The Beauty in Nature: The Great Crane Migration

    There is no greater, more thrilling, or more inspiring natural happening in the Lower 48 than 600,000 northbound sandhill cranes gathering each evening for a few weeks on the Platte River in south-central Nebraska.

  • The Beauty in Nature: The Great Crane Migration

    There is no greater, more thrilling, or more inspiring natural happening in the Lower 48 than 600,000 northbound sandhill cranes gathering each evening for a few weeks on the Platte River in south-central Nebraska.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Burrowing Rodents

    Though not closely related, woodchucks and muskrats are adaptable rodents that have traits in common. Both species are native to much of North America, including southeastern Pennsylvania.

  • The Beauty in Nature: A Variety of Voles

    When snow melts in fields, meadows, and roadsides in southeastern Pennsylvania, several winding, inch-wide trails through matted grass are exposed, revealing the presence of meadow voles, a kind of mouse.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Pitch Pines and Table Mountain Pines

    Pitch pines and table mountain pines are scrubby, picturesque trees that mostly inhabit poor, thin soil on dry, rocky ridges and slopes along the Appalachian Mountains.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Crabeater and Weddell Seals

    Crabeater and Weddell seals live abundantly in the southern oceans. Both species are incredibly admirable for being well adapted to living around Antarctica, a tough environment to call home.

  • The Beauty in Nature: Antarctic Krill

    Several species of krill, which are crustaceans related to shrimp, crayfish, and crabs, are abundant in all oceans on Earth.

  • The Beauty in Nature: 2 Sphinx Moths

    About the size of a carpenter bee, a mysterious, 1.5-inch creature hovers like a hummingbird before flowers during the day and pokes its long proboscis into each bloom to sip nectar.

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