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• Ladybugs, preparing for hibernation, concentrate in vast numbers on Bear Mountain, Green Mountain and other summits in the foothills. Monarch butterflies leave for Mexico. Box elder bugs and other ...

Where's the winter white? While we don't have snow as we head into mid-December, little creatures of the woods still are snuggled safely in their winter dens awaiting the heavy insulating blanket of ...

A chipmunk won. A week before the groggy groundhog is supposed to wake up and see his shadow (or not), a bright-eyed chipmunk bounced up out of hibernation into my backyard. It was a beautifully sunny ...