A few weeks ago I wrote about an English gardener who was investigating the homing instinct of snails. By marking their shells with a little spot of nail varnish she was able to check whether snails she had moved a certain distance were able to find their way back. It turned out that thirty yards [...]
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Fall colors have been exceptional this year. The weather conditions have been ideal to produce strong leaf colors that have not been matched for many years. But now the wind and rain are combining to strip the trees of their autumn tints and leave us with the task of raking up the leaves. This used [...]