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Are wolf spiders scary because of their name or because they are spiders? Dana Wilde writes

In an interview, Tan describes what she hopes people will learn from her book. The celebrated author of "The Joy Luck Club" and more than a dozen other works will discuss "The Backyard Bird Chronicles" at the University of San Diego on Wednesday.

After a strangely disrupted winter, the routine signs of life returning this month are reassuring that some kind of conventional order persists, Dana Wilde writes.

With new research suggesting cross spiders experience sleeplike phases, Dana Wilde ponders what dreams are made of for a variety of living things.

Mulling whether toads think curmudgeonly thoughts, Dana Wilde ponders about the inner life of toads and the impossibility of our ever having the faintest understanding of it.

A whole other world of construction is glinting in the late summer woods, Dana Wilde writes.

A discovery during a backyard expedition turns up squirming and unfamiliar things, Dana Wilde writes.

Dana Wilde tries to unravel the mystery of spiders whose presence is known mainly on bridges or other structures overhanging water, where small gnats are their a preferred food.

Updates and events from Yates County area churches.

The birds' three-note song echoes in memory and is unforgettable many years later, Dana Wilde writes.