Backyard Naturalist: Wolf spiders discovered on one of the first bug-, toad- and frog-finding missions of the spring
Are wolf spiders scary because of their name or because they are spiders? Dana Wilde writes
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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.