I still don’t know what will deter us from driving headlong into self-destruction by climate change, writes Dana Wilde.

Blue jays are tricksters who know what they’re doing, and also what they’re talking about, writes Dana Wilde.

Little did we know in June that a veritable summer colony of nursery web spider families was setting up in the garden, writes Dana Wilde.

Buttonbush blossom is a natural miracle you can see performed every year, writes Dana Wilde.

Orbweaving spiders perceive the world mainly through vibrations of silk and air, parallel to the way we perceive the world mainly through light and sound, writes Dana Wilde.

Sometimes I get chills when my mind homes in on the fact that spiders are sentient, writes Dana Wilde.

Every kind of suffering and joy seems upon us here in early summer, writes Dana Wilde.

If you can’t remember ticks being much of a problem when you were a kid, it’s because they weren’t, writes Dana Wilde.