BUTTE CREEK CANYON — Growing up, Roger Lederer was told damselflies could bring good fortune when fishing. “Whenever I went fishing and a damselfly landed on my rod, it was called a lucky bug. So I ...

Some stories from Greek myths feel like they could have happened in a garden by the sea. Galatea is one of those stories. She ...

Dr. Emily Schilling, associate director of the Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories, is helping to map the migratory patterns of a powerful predator of both the air and the water.

Hundreds of volunteers across central North Carolina are part the Haw River Watch Program. Since December 1994, the program ...

A ground-breaking ceremony for the pond at Vernon's Allan Brooks Nature Centre was held Wednesday. Beginning in September 2025, ABNC began work to expand the pond to three times its current size, ...

Plans for an ambitious ecological initiative are taking shape in Vernon. The Allan Brooks Nature Centre will hold its groundbreaking ceremony for the Norah’s Pond Revitalization Project next Tuesday, ...

The Fishlab Nature Series Nymph is a shockingly effective soft plastic bass bait. The difference between my impressions of the lure in its package vs. the lure in the water could not be farther apart.

I had my doubts about the FishLab Flutter Nymph. Big mistake! I tested it on the water and knew immediately I was wrong. See why this surprising soft plastic bass bait turned a skeptic like me into a ...

Dragonflies are hard to miss. Big, fast, and buzzing over trout streams like little helicopters, they’re the opposite of subtle. If a trout can pick out a size 22 mayfly, it certainly isn’t blind to a ...

I was walking along the riverbank of the Padma, scanning the water and trees for any sign of birds, when something caught my eye. The soft mud along the bank was dotted with empty husks — the exuviae ...

The adult green darner dragonfly (Anax junius), also known as the mosquito hawk, is a voracious predator. It snatches and devours small insects as they fly over water. Mosquitoes, gnats, moths, tiny ...