The Joyce Road Neighborhood

I was moving some rocks and dirt in our woods when I uncovered this Yellow-Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum). Yellow-Spotted sala...

I was doing some work at our barn when I noticed a bunch of eastern yellowjackets ( Vespula maculifrons ) clustered on some siding. I...

I was checking out one of my wildlife food plots today when I noticed some lower limbs on an apple tree had been damaged. After a closer...

The seasons will soon be changing as we work our way through the late days of Summer. Some of the neighborhood whitetail deer are changing f...

As I mentioned in my post on the solar eclipse, we were in Iowa for our granddaughter's second birthday, but also visited the Iowa State...

We had the good luck of being in Iowa for our granddaughter's second birthday and able to also take in a total eclipse of the sun. On th...

I was wandering through our woods and found some mushrooms had popped up after the recent rains.

While photographing bees in a patch of goldenrod I found this Two-Striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) in the background of one of my...

When it comes to identifying butterflies I'm no expert, but there are some butteries that are easy to identify, such as the Monarch (Dan...

I recently found a colony of wild honey bees in a tree next to a large patch of goldenrod ... Lots of close-up photos of bees on the goldenr...

I was walking around a large patch of flowering goldenrod and started to notice large numbers of honey bees on the goldenrod and a content b...