College Park Wild: European vacation!
By RICK BORCHELT It’s barely past snow season, and already stores are stocking displays of sunscreen and sandals for the…
College Park Wild: What does the fox say?
By RICK BORCHELT In a fable known to most schoolchildren, Aesop tells about a fox that has discovered a cluster…
College Park Wild: Sleeping in silk sheets
By Rick Borchelt Come a warm, still late afternoon in May, a male cecropia moth — Hyalophora cecropia, the largest…
College Park Wild: Who hoots for you?
By Rick Borchelt Here in the D.C. metro area, we’re accustomed to having the icy stillness of midwinter nights being…
College Park Wild: Meanwhile, back at the lodge
By RICK BORCHELT Busy as a beaver is an accurate watchword for this industrious mammal, second only to the South…
College Park Wild: A royal river of orange
By RICK BORCHELT From October until the first frosts, a river of orange flows through Maryland — a river of…
College Park Wild: Down yonder in the pawpaw patch
By Rick Borchelt Welcome to “ha’siminikiisfwa,” or pawpaw moon in the Shawnee tongue — the month we know as September….
College Park Wild: For ants, antlions are the pits
By Rick Borchelt You’ve probably seen them in the sand or loose soil under roof overhangs, beneath playground equipment or…
College Park Wild: Don’t squash this bee!
By Rick Borchelt July and August bring farmers market tables laden with squash — zucchini, patty pan, crookneck. Bushels and…
College Park Wild: Turtles all the way down
By Rick Borchelt Testudo, the half-ton bronze University of Maryland mascot outside McKeldin Library, isn’t going on walkabout anytime soon…