Author: A. Rentner

Roses, bougainvillea, black-eyed Susans or any of dozens of plants that sport bright colors in the summer attract a particular genus of bee which one could swear wields a hole punch as it races from plant to plant. Any of 77...

Any who have never visited the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge to see the tule elk should come soon as this is one of the more important times on the tule calendar – breeding season also known as the rut. The word rut stems...

At the top of the food chain in the natural world are the apex predators. They are the lions and leopards in Africa, the tigers in Burma, the jaguars in Brazil and big cats generally where they exist worldwide. Some say human...

Much of the flora and fauna in North America is not native to our ecosystem but was imported from Europe. Rock pigeons came from England with the first colonists in the 17th century and spread west with the pioneers. In 1851 an...

Despite what one might read on a blabosphere post, mugwort has nothing to do with a scaly skin blemish that shows up on a jailhouse booking photo. California mugwort (Artemesia douglasiana) is a fast-growing shrub often found in...