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Your enemy can be your friend

We are preparing for the “enemy” that is about to descend upon us.

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Halve your lawn

We need to talk about your lawn.

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Fun for all at the Fall Forum

There are many signs that fall is here, which means for the many gardeners in Suffolk it is ...

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Early fall, in nature and elsewhere

It’s after Labor Day. The yellow buses are rolling with heads bouncing in the windows, each with its ...

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Phi in nature — the Divine Proportion

Pi, which is rounded to 3.14159, is a constant number that deals with circles. Pi-r-squared is the area ...

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Random thoughts of a naturalist

A truly large oak tree shadowing an old farmhouse gives meaning to the phrase “old friend.”

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Lions and tigers and gators…

Last year in this space, we wrote of invasive species and said, blithely, that alligators were not one ...

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Hypoxia is a blight on the Bay

Last week, while boating on the James River near the James River Bridge, I noticed an oddity. It ...

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Bait: Ya gotta love the concept

What do corn kernels, chicken livers, fiddler crabs, crickets, fish belly strips, sand fleas and delicious shrimp have ...

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The return of the cicadas

I hate to do bugs two weeks in a row, but naturalists get interested in what they see ...

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