Over the Thanksgiving holiday week, American consumers tossed out about 200 million pounds of turkey, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In fact, American consumers waste 60 million tons of food a year, statistics show.
Drum roll... The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, is gearing up for the new year. Open houses or special events planned from January through May include: Saturday, Jan. 11: General Open House 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb.
They don't communicate like we do, but if praying mantises could talk, do you think they would forego the formal greeting of "Nice to meet you" and say "Nice to eat you?
Look, over there! It's Thanksgiving Week and there's a newly eclosed Gulf Fritillary on a tattered pink zinnia "that looks as it has seen better days," as my mother used to say. The orange of autumn exploding, the silver of yultide beckoning. Silver and bold...
