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Chasing Nature

Bryan Pfeiffer
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Essays on wildlife, wild places and the human condition.

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Latest Issues

Sex, Theft and a Beetle

Dogbane Leaf Beetle / © Bryan Pfeiffer

In a culture drawn to sex and shiny objects, it would seem hard to overlook the Dogbane Leaf Beetle. Along with its rainbow glow, this beetle is promiscuous, polyamorous, and poisonous. It’s a heck of...

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A Flower Reminds Me Where I Belong

A woodland spruce bog in northern Vermont / © Bryan Pfeiffer

If you’re a field biologist heading to a bog, your first concern isn’t usually a hot-pink flower. Not that the flower doesn’t matter. It does. But first, you must get to the bog...

23 days ago
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Virtue in a Droplet

The Droplet (<1mm across) on an Eastern Dwarf Mistletoe shoot © Bryan Pfeiffer

Given the world’s troubles, I recognize that a droplet at the tip of a bizarre flower isn’t exactly breaking news.

And yet you, dear readers, are among the few...

a month ago
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A Songbird for a Damaged World

Palm Warbler in winter (near actual palms) / © Bryan Pfeiffer

One day during the 18th century, on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, a songbird with the quirky habit of wagging its tail was killed, probably by fine-grain birdshot, and col...

2 months ago
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Seeing Red

New leaves of Sugar Maple / © Bryan Pfeiffer

Yet again the conventional wisdom is wrong. Spring isn’t green; it’s countless shades of red. Carmine tints emerging leaves. Ruby dyes early flowers. And scarlet conveys songbird desire.

The gr...

2 months ago
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