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Interesting plants
The other day when we were heading south to Ann Arbor we stopped at Point LaBarbe in Mackinac County. We were looking for some interesting late summer plants. And we actually found everything that we were looking for. Fen grass-of-parnassus on the left, lesser fringed gentian on the right. The mixed cobble and sand near…
What was in the garden last night
Our garden, which is mostly edible plants also attracts a great variety of insects, both during the day and at night. Tomato hornworm caterpillar that’s been parasitized and covered in small coccoons. It’s still alive and munching on tomato leaves. Female Chinese mantis that laid eggs in the kale. This non-native species has apparently fed…
Diseases, past, present, and future
Sometimes I get lost in thinking about diseases. Since the early 2000s I’ve read the monthly issue of Emerging Infectious Disease. This is a journal put out by the CDC on disease outbreaks. At the time I first learned about this journal I was teaching both genetics and evolution and influenza was a hot topic.…
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