Jeanine Farley

From songbird to gourmet delicacy, the bobolink fights for survival in a world increasingly determined to capture it.

These nimble arachnids vary from their web-wizard counterparts. They're flexible, have excellent hearing, & can hurdle two to three times their body length.

Otherwise known as the pill bug, roly poly, or doodlebug, wood louses are decomposers, recycling dead matter from nature's floor.

They may be snakes in the grass but they present no threat to humans and are sociable with each other.

Chimneys are less accessible, but their biggest problem is a great drop in the number of insects.

The only kind of book worms most people like to see are the human ones Way back in 1665, Robert Hooker wrote of the “small, Silver-coloured Book-worm” that chews through books and papers.

Tick bites can cause an allergic reaction in certain people. Ticks, at least here in New England, are synonymous with summer.

Once incredibly along our shores, now a vulnerable delicacy, lobsters are deeply intertwined with the history of the region

After surviving vengeful farmers and DDT, the birds now are suffering from rodenticides.

Over a century after the ban on hunting pileated woodpeckers, these birds have pecked their way out of endangerment