Angela E Douglas

Nature on the Doorstep

A Year of Letters

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A collection of weekly letters about a small and decidedly ordinary back yard that reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world through a full year"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: COMSTOCK PUB
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781501768118
• ISBN-10: 1501768115
• Artikelnr.: 63766639

Autorenporträt

Angela E. Douglas is Emerita Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor Emerita of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including Symbiotic Interactions, Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes, and Fundamentals of Microbiome Science.

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March 22
2020: On the horns of a dilemma March 29
2020: Spring is coming... April 5
2020: Wordsworth's flowers April 12
2020: Vultures and rabbits April 19
2020: Bloom where you are planted April 26
2020: Winter's dregs May 3
2020: The English daisy May 10
2020: Bud burst! May 17
2020: And now it's summer May 24
2020: Chipmunks and woodchucks May 31
2020: Looking up June 7
2020: Natives and aliens June 14
2002: Save the bees! June 21
2020: A terminological jungle June 28
2020: Empires under the maple tree July 5
2020: Fireflies: a wonder of the Ithaca world July 12
2020: The Deptford pink July 19
2020: Blue jay birds and blue jay humans July 26
2020: Call my bluff August 2
2020: Termite mound or Italian villa? August 9
2020: Happy families August 16
2020: The orthopteran orchestra August 23
2020: Backyard munchers August 30
2020: Wasps galore September 6
2020: The official end of summer September 13
2020: Garden silks September 20
2020: Late season flowers September 27
2020: The War of the Seasons October 4
2020: The backyard harvest October 11
2020: Making a living in the backyard October 18
2020: The winter birdseed feeder is back in business October 25
2020: Fall colors November 1
2020: The end of the 2020 orthopteran orchestra November 8
2020: Fake news! November 15
2020: What's on today's menu? November 22
2020: It smells to high heaven November 29
2020: Peter
Peter
pumpkin eater December 6
2020: Hawk
beware! December 13
2020: Life in the leafless trees December 20
2020: Nearly a foot of snow December 27
2020: Mass Sparrow Attack January 3
2021: Celebrating the last day of the year January 10
2021: Winter sounds January 17
2021: Sparrow Wars January 24
2021: The daily red squirrel January 31
2021: It is nothing but winter-winter
cold and savage February 7
2021: A Miller B nor'easter and a Bumpus event February 14
2021: Finding their voice February 21
2021: The daily crow commute February 28
2021: Periwinkle for tea March 7
2021: Snow fleas March 14
2021: All change