An inventory of my Cabinet of Curiosity As an artist and naturalist, I’m an inveterate collector of dead things cast off by the living. Many of life’s most beautiful objects were once alive and are just as beautiful and intriguing when not. My home is like one big...
The Darlingtonia Midge & Its Murderous Accomplice Who would believe that an insect and an insect-eating plant could have a mutually beneficial relationship? Surprisingly, that’s exactly the case in the unlikely union between the mosquito-like midge and the...
Halloween may conjure up thoughts of ghost stories, horror movies, and chilling tales, but nothing can compare to how truly bizarre and intriguing nature can be. What could be more peculiar, more frightening, than the strange and ghastly realities stories found in the...
The sundew is a diminutive but deadly insectivorous cousin of the Venus flytrap. Its genus name, Drosera, comes from the Greek word meaning ‘dewy’, a reference to the plant’s glistening droplets of sticky liquid mounted at the tips of touch-sensitive...
