I'm going to let Next-Door Nature readers in on a little-known fact about me... I started walking quite early in life. I was 8 months old. According to the Cleveland Clinic website, the average age at which human babies start to walk is 12 months although some of them procrastinate until 17 or 18 months.... Continue Reading →
The Measure of a Moth
How do you assign a value to nature, or to a specific component of an ecosystem? Humans have various methods for assigning worth to natural resources and ecosystem services, but how would you go about appraising the unintentional contributions to science made by the small, easy-to-overlook Peppered Moth (Biston betularia)?