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Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America and of Northeastern North America: A Review of Two Field Guides

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You can blame the nice people at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who took it upon themselves to send me a review copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle. Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America. Let that sink in.

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

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In that deviant spirit, this week’s beer is Mash Up the Jam, a new dry-hopped sour beer by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario. I suspect this will be the first and last time we’ll see a beer featuring this species, an introduced Old-World songbird best known in North America from its St. Louis, Missouri population.

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Where I Went Birding that Third Weekend of September 2020

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The Salvia mexicana is sold in North America with the varietal name “Limelight” But this one was wild, native, and beautiful. This plant’s flowers are deep blue; the stiff calices from which those flowers grow provide the chartreuse color.).

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