Nature on the Doorstep

A Year of Letters

Angela E. Douglas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2023
Comstock Publishing Associates (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6811-8 (ISBN)

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Nature on the Doorstep reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world in one's own backyard over the course of a year. In weekly letters, Angela Douglas shares the joys and curiosities of a decidedly ordinary patch of green in upstate New York cultivated through the art of "strategic neglect"—sometimes taking a hand to manage wildlife, more often letting nature go its own way.

From the first flowers of spring to cardinals singing in the winter, Douglas shows us the magic of welcoming unexpected plant and animal life into one's backyard. A paean to the richness we find when we stop to look and let be, Nature on the Doorstep celebrates the role humble backyards play both in conservation efforts and in an expanded appreciation of the living world.

Angela E. Douglas is Emerita Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor Emerita of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. She is the author of several books, including Symbiotic Interactions, Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes, and Fundamentals of Microbiome Science.

March 22, 2020: On the horns of a dilemma

March 29, 2020: Spring is coming...

April 5, 2020: Wordsworth's flowers

April 12, 2020: Vultures and rabbits

April 19, 2020: Bloom where you are planted

April 26, 2020: Winter's dregs

May 3, 2020: The English daisy

May 10, 2020: Bud burst!

May 17, 2020: And now it's summer

May 24, 2020: Chipmunks and woodchucks

May 31, 2020: Looking up

June 7, 2020: Natives and aliens

June 14, 2002: Save the bees!

June 21, 2020: A terminological jungle

June 28, 2020: Empires under the maple tree

July 5, 2020: Fireflies: a wonder of the Ithaca world

July 12, 2020: The Deptford pink

July 19, 2020: Blue jay birds and blue jay humans

July 26, 2020: Call my bluff

August 2, 2020: Termite mound or Italian villa?

August 9, 2020: Happy families

August 16, 2020: The orthopteran orchestra

August 23, 2020: Backyard munchers

August 30, 2020: Wasps galore

September 6, 2020: The official end of summer

September 13, 2020: Garden silks

September 20, 2020: Late season flowers

September 27, 2020: The War of the Seasons

October 4, 2020: The backyard harvest

October 11, 2020: Making a living in the backyard

October 18, 2020: The winter birdseed feeder is back in business

October 25, 2020: Fall colors

November 1, 2020: The end of the 2020 orthopteran orchestra

November 8, 2020: Fake news!

November 15, 2020: What's on today's menu?

November 22, 2020: It smells to high heaven

November 29, 2020: Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater

December 6, 2020: Hawk, beware!

December 13, 2020: Life in the leafless trees

December 20, 2020: Nearly a foot of snow

December 27, 2020: Mass Sparrow Attack

January 3, 2021: Celebrating the last day of the year

January 10, 2021: Winter sounds

January 17, 2021: Sparrow Wars

January 24, 2021: The daily red squirrel

January 31, 2021: It is nothing but winter—winter, cold and savage

February 7, 2021: A Miller B nor'easter and a Bumpus event

February 14, 2021: Finding their voice

February 21, 2021: The daily crow commute

February 28, 2021: Periwinkle for tea

March 7, 2021: Snow fleas

March 14, 2021: All change

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	2 Diagrams
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-6811-5 / 1501768115
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-6811-8 / 9781501768118
Zustand	Neuware