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The chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica) is a bird belonging to the swift family Apodidae. A member of the genus Chaetura, it is closely related to both the Vaux's swift and the Chapman's swift; in the past, the three were sometimes considered to be conspecific. It has no subspecies. The chimney swift is a medium-sized, sooty gray bird with very long, slender wings and very short legs. Like all swifts, it is incapable of perching, and can only cling vertically to surfaces. The chimney swift feeds primarily on flying insects, but also on airborne spiders. It generally mates for life. It builds a bracket nest of twigs and saliva stuck to a vertical surface, which is almost always a human-built structure, typically a chimney.

“C” is for Camp Wadsworth. This site in Spartanburg County was one of sixteen chosen nationally as a U.S. Army training camp in the summer of 1917.

Caterpillars can be difficult to identify because they go through 5 stages of growth. Each stage is called an "instar." As a caterpillar grows, it "molts" 5 times before it becomes a chrysalis.

The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body.

Rudy shares some of his favorite poems.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Charlie Strange about specific exercise that can help patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Dr. Strange is a Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at MUSC.

I had the enormous good fortune as a young man to get to work with the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Rostropovich, or “Slava,” as everybody called him, was the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra when I played in that ensemble, and with all his other engagements he still somehow made time to give master classes just for members of the orchestra.

Americans lose billions of dollars each year due to various scams; over the phone or internet, or by just stealing ID cards. While some of these cons have been around for a while, new ones are invented every day. My guest today is going to share some advice on how to avoid being such a victim. Mike Switzer interviews John Cooper, a certified financial planner with Greenwood Capital in Greenwood, SC.

We often hear of the need for our state to have more capital available to entrepreneurs. Our next guest is going to tell us about a new program her state agency has put together to help grow our venture capital base. Mike Switzer interviews Laura Corder McIntosh, managing director of the Office of Innovation at the South Carolina Dept. of Commerce in Columbia. She will tell us about the Palmetto Venture Fellowship.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John discusses his recent meeting with the executive director of the South Carolina Artisan Center in Walterboro and how to rebrand public awareness.