lifespan

I used to think a beetle lived for one summer and then was gone. Then…

Last year I stood in front of an octopus tank for almost an hour. A…

Last winter I watched a gray squirrel raid the bird feeder on my back fence….

The cricket chirping behind my fridge in January was, it turns out, a house cricket…

Every autumn my window fills with crane flies bouncing off the glass, and every autumn…

The first snake I ever held was a corn snake named Marble at a county…

I found my first starfish at low tide on a beach in Maine when I…

My grandmother kept a postcard of the swans at Abbotsbury on her fridge for years….

The first millipede I really looked at was curled into a tight coil under a…

I started looking into wolf lifespans after reading that a wild wolf rarely sees its…