Updated Weedy Plants Field Guide!

(The cover of our Weedy Plants Guide!)

This post is an update to my previous post about the history of weedy plants. In that post, I included a free download link to a field guide that I co-authored, entitled Field Guide to Weedy Plants of New Jersey.  

I am happy to announce that the field guide has been updated to include new flowering plant species!

Follow this link to download a free PDF of the field guide.

Hunting blind, but still a success!

In addition to the video being hilarious, this study by Creveny et al. (2010) brings to light how animals are in tune with aspects of the environment that, as humans, seem negligible.   

Watch the below video to see how a Red Fox hunts for prey that scurrying around, hidden under the snow.  Only when facing magnetic north did the foxes have a successful capture rate of >70%.

For an easy to digest summary of a fox's skills check out this NPR article written by RadioLab's host Robert Krulwich.