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The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida, Phasmatoptera or Spectra) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as Devil's darning needles, although this name is shared by both dragonflies and crane flies.

For a long time, our state has developed a reputation as a manufacturing state. A segment of our economy that continues to struggle to find qualified employees and is keeping our next guest very busy. Mike Switzer interviews Ben Talbert, president and CEO of Better Than Found, a recruiting firm in Greenville, SC.

“M” is for Mathews, John (1744-1802). Governor. On December 14, 1782, Governor John Mathews presided over the reoccupation of Charleston by American forces.

“P” is for Pee Dee River. The Pee Dee is a river system that drains northeastern South Carolina and central North Carolina.

Modern scholars have found that Fasch’s music represents an important transition between the style of the late Baroque period and the “classical” style of Haydn and Mozart.

Antonio Vivaldi’s life story could easily be the subject of a novel.

Claude Debussy once referred to Bach’s music as “pure musical arabesque.”

A listener reports two casulties outside a window: a grey-cheeked thrush and a rose-breasted grosbeak.

Sphex pensylvanicus, the great black wasp, is a species of digger wasp. It lives across most of North America and grows to a size of 20–35 mm (0.8–1.4 in). The larvae feed on living insects that the females paralyze and carry to the underground nest.

The eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus) is a medium-sized species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is found along forest edges, rock piles, and rotting logs or stumps in the eastern United States. It is sometimes referred to as the prairie lizard, fence swift, gray lizard, gravid lizard, northern fence lizard or pine lizard. It is also referred to colloquially as the horn-billed lizard.