J. Morton Galetto, CU Maurice River

Spots and All

In New Jersey, Nature Serve Explorer shows spotted wintergreen, Chimaphila maculata, as being primarily secure. Note that the range in which it is considered...

Aiming for Native Species

The hummingbird clearwing moth’s caterpillars use the leaves of arrowwood as a food source. This moth is feeding on nectar from phlox. Clearwings are...

All Green Thumbs

Plants grown and sold by the Master Gardeners of Cumberland County at the WheatonArts Ecofair. Photo: Rutgers Agricultural Experiment Station The history of Master Gardeners...

Bayshore Painter

Glenn Rudderow painting East Point Lighthouse from a Delaware bayside vantage point. Photo: NJN, Reflections of a Bayshore Painter Recently, we lost an iconic painter...

A Morning in the ‘Hide’

The amount of orange on the eastern tailed-blue butterfly varies. Urine is likely to have attracted this crowd for its high concentration of salts...

Skipping Along

The Juvenal’s duskywings coloration is perfect for camouflage on sand andmudpuddles. Its spots look like grains of sand and the dark like the mud.Photo:...