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The adult mayfly we might see represents a form that only exists for a day or so.
Fly by night
If you listen closely, you might hear it on a sticky summer night along the water, a muffled whisper of tiny wings by the thousands. It’s the aerial mating dance of mayflies, or willow flies as ...
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LBL's Hummingbird Festival marks early buildup of tiny migrators
LBL’s Hummingbird fest marks early buildup
While it might not feel like the end of summer just yet, hummingbirds are taking steps in preparation for the cold season to come. Many don’t wait until the last minute to bug out. Indeed, ruby-...
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Contributed photo A yellow-and-black mud dauber is a solitary wasp with mild manners toward humans.
The dirt on daubers These mud-molding solitary wasps won’t sting us, but spiders sure hate to see them coming
Mud daubers, adobe masons of the insect world, bug us with their construction. Figuratively, it can be a pain when their nests of dried mud show up around and on our homes and outbuildings. Yet ...
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Mallards were especially plentiful in recent nesting ground surveys.
Duck numbers fly higher in face of habitat decline
Duck numbers have been well above the long-term average for several seasons now, and all good things must come to an end — but apparently not yet. Biologists were expecting a downturn in waterfo...
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Visiting anglers score a triple on white bass from the deck of Kick'n Bass Guide Services.
Summer and stripes Adjust for the heat and white bass still go helter skelter in the swelter
The white bass is a species that is seasonally typecast, fish we’re supposed to catch during the summer. Most other game fish are harder to catch in the sizzle of summer. White bass – “stripes” ...
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The endangered interior least tern nests in the open on river sandbars, the eggs protected only by natural camouflage.
Endangered terns nesting on Kentucky rivers
It’s OK if you don’t know what interior least terns are, but you’d better be aware of where they are. A Carlisle County man found that out recently when he allegedly drove a four-wheeler on a si...
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The green darner is probably the largest, and one of the most common, dragonflies of the region.
Snake doctors Dragonflies, damselflies do catch other bugs, but they don’t share with reptiles
You’d think that if a cottonmouth has a health problem and needs treatment, he goes to see, what, a snake doctor? As ridiculous as that sounds, the term snake doctor does refer to a real creatur...
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West Tennesseean Mike Bynum shows the mount of a buck he took on an LBL quota hunt, the kind of deer that will draw hunter interest from afar.
An eye to autumn LBL quota deer applications prod thoughts of cooler time, woodsy place
Today, the swelter of summer. Before you know it, crisp fall. Really. One of those it’s-later-than-you-think moments this time of year is when the U.S. Forest Service at the Land Between the Lak...
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Photo by Ray Stainfield Little stinkers on the prairie A striped skunk mother escorts her litter of youngsters on a recent exploratory outing at the Land Between the Lakes' Elk & Bison Prairie.
Risk rises with holiday boating crowd on waterways
The peak for boating fun on area lakes and rivers is just ahead with the July 4th holiday. On a darker note, it’s probably the peak time for boating danger, too. Simply enough, the Independen...
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Anyone pull a lion’s tale?
More wildlife scientists are beginning to think the cat’s out of the bag. A recently released set of research suggests that encounters with wild, naturally occurring mountain lions are becoming ...
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