Category: Wildlife

  • Bees Can Smell Cancer

    Bees Can Smell Cancer

    It’s all the buzz. Bees can smell cancer and they are accurate, too. They now join dogs and other animals that have been trained to smell cancer. That’s cool all by itself but here’s what I want to know: Who looks at a bee and thinks, ‘I wonder if I…

  • Wild Things Make My Heart Sing

    Wild Things Make My Heart Sing

    #Rewilding your yard I’m working on a story about a friend who is trying to bring back native savannas on his 5K farm in the Cumberland Plateau, TN. When I saw this story about six steps to rewilding your yard, had to see how I stack up with my Florida-native,…

  • Why I don’t eat calamari any more

    Why I don’t eat calamari any more

    So, someone’s kid was fascinated by octopuses. His parents finally caved and got him one within weeks, though they had 50 of them. Apparently, just as they were getting the hang of caring for the critters, there were more critters. He was, apparently, a SHE. Terrance was a Terri! Apparently,…