Posts tagged nature
Everybody I know is having kids, so I made this helpful guide to nature names for your baby. The original is over here.
How well do you know poison ivy?
Recently, someone told me, “Poison ivy is everywhere! How can I ever go hiking?” The woods were so scary for her, and it broke my heart.
My talented friend Glen and I made a Poison Ivy Quiz that will hopefully help you beef up your plant-spotting skills. Glen did the programming, and I took photos in bogs, woods and the urban jungle.
A new goofy thing about the wild turkeys I’ve seen (and heard) this spring. Here’s this comic on my site.
Thanks for your comments on my last post — so interesting!
Here’s what spring has looked like so far in my neck of the woods: spring azure butterflies fluttering, blue-spotted salamanders creeping, mourning cloaks emerging from hiding (they overwinter as adults!), and turkeys showing off. I love how this season looks different everywhere. What does spring look like where you are?
Happy spring, nature lovers! Here’s this comic on my site.
Edit: lots of discussion on my Facebook Page about whether actinomycetes are fungi or bacteria. Actinomycetes are now classified as gram-positive bacteria, though they have fungus-like characteristics. I highly recommend this book for the budding (or zoosporulating?) bacteriophile!
Thanks to Lalo Hidalgo G for translating this comic for a Spanish Richard Dawkins Facebook page!
Some news! I’m giving a talk about science cartooning on Saturday, April 20th for the Cambridge Science Festival, along with two other science cartoonists. More event details here! I’m really excited. Please come hang out with me and ask questions!
Here’s some cool press from the Times of India.
I finished my art for Ryan North’s record-breakin’ Hamlet adventure. I did more work for the Stated Clearly video series. My store’s all stocked up. I have a bunch of new comics in the works - stay tuned!
Here’s new comic about a deeply complicated issue. Let me know how you think I did! So much research went into this one. There’s a story behind every critter.
Every branch of nature-watching has its own ridiculously tough IDs. Feel free to substitute your own!
A little cartoon about the monarch/butterfly relationship. It’s inspired by AMAZING research from this lab here, though any errors, factual, technical or aerodynamic, are mine. On my site here.
Today I went for a hike and got to hand-feed some wild birds — black-capped chickadees, white-breasted nuthatches and red-breasted nuthatches. There’s nothing like the tiny weight of a bird in your hand, or hearing their very strongly-voiced opinions about the quality of seeds or the manners of the other birds.
