Columnist Dana Wilde’s brother is an exterminator who finds himself in some weird situations with bugs and humans.
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Sleepy stretch of summer
No one knows the exact chemical location where brain hallucinations, delirium and death intersect with the visionary beauty of summer flowers, writes Dana Wilde.
Snapping turtles crossing
You’d think swerving out to avoid a turtle would put a better shine on your day than swerving onto the roadside to crush one, writes Dana Wilde.
Why the barred owl sings
Their primordial lines of poetry have been sung in these woods for who knows how many millennia, writes Dana Wilde.
Goldfinch a sure sign of summer
We tend to be pretty self-congratulatory about our superior language capabilities, while the goldfinches meanwhile are outsinging us all, writes Dana Wilde.
Martian time slip
It takes 4.5 minutes for light to travel from Earth to Mars in their current positions, slightly skewing clock measurements — not to mention the psyches of people trying to make sense out of them, writes Dana Wilde.
Once and future Mars
You can look southward and see Mars any clear night from now into early summer, 55 million miles or so leeward of the sun, writes Dana Wilde.
Spring peepers come early
The spring peepers normally hop to the breeding sites when the temperature starts topping 40 degrees, usually around mid-April, Dana Wilde writes.
The difficulty of clearing the air
When you drive to the recycling center and let your car idle, there is a bit of a disconnect, writes Dana Wilde.
If nothing else, recycle your torbichkas
What can each of us do about environmental degradation? It’s about recycling the small stuff, Dana Wilde writes.