David Wasmuth

What child can resist an up-close inspection of lightning bugs?

Pollinators, native species highlighted at celebration.

The act would mandate 70% of plantings on public property be native to the mid Atlantic and northeast regions.

Environmentalists call for biodiversity, reductions in lawns.

Groundhogs look cuddly, but they are detailed engineers, with a somewhat complicated social life, writes David Wasmuth in "What's In Your Backyard."

Thanks to a Mast year for oaks (many acorns!), this is a boom year for chipmunks. Here's a bit about their ways.

The shy skunk in your backyard would really rather not spray you, according to David Wasmuth, in his column for "What's in Your Backyard."

In the debut of "What's in your backyard," Sanford Sorkin describes becoming a birder, and spotting the red-tailed and sharp-skinned hawk.