Rudy Mancke

Happy Arbor Day - a good day to plant a tree!

A teacher shares how he uses NatureNotes in his classroom.

A listener spies a Great Blue Heron in Greenville.

Calostoma cinnabarinum is a species of gasteroid fungus in the family Sclerodermataceae, and is the type species of the genus Calostoma. It is known by several common names, including stalked puffball-in-aspic and gelatinous stalked-puffball.

The limpkin (Aramus guarauna), also called carrao, courlan, and crying bird, is the only extant species in the genus Aramus and the family Aramidae. It is found mostly in wetlands in warm parts of the Americas, from Florida to northern Argentina. It feeds on molluscs, with the diet dominated by apple snails of the genus Pomacea. Its name derives from its seeming limp when it walks.

Rudy recounts the joys of a nature walk in Cayce, SC.

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

A listener in Beaufort finds bumblebees who appear to be frozen in place, clinging to flowers.

A listener finds something in the hedges that looks like a "brown marshmellow."

Rudy shares some words from William Shakespeare and James Russell Lowell.

The giant leopard moth or eyed tiger moth (Hypercompe scribonia) is a moth of the family Erebidae. They are distributed through North America from southern Ontario, and southern and eastern United States through New England, Mexico and down to Panama.

Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms. These flatworms are mainly predators of other invertebrates, which they hunt, attack and capture using physical force and the adhesive and digestive properties of their mucus. They lack water-retaining mechanisms and are therefore very sensitive to humidity variations of their environment.

This species is migratory, wintering in southern Florida, northern Central America, the West Indies and most of the Lesser Antilles.

It's not an uncommon sight.

A listener finds a pair of "Walkingsticks"...