This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane...
When I was little boy I thought the name yellow-bellied sapsucker was the funniest thing I’d ever heard and though I did know it...
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name....