Battling mosquitoes — Tactics to try, and to avoid (What’s in Your Backyard)
How did they find you? Your mistake was breathing.
What's in your backyard
Knock on wood: It’s what woodpeckers do for a living (What’s in Your Backyard)
A guide for Montclair residents to the pecking order in the winter backyard
The shy opossum is a superhero in secret (What’s in your backyard)
Consider: It’s a species as old as the dinosaurs
Wildlife doing fall chores to prep for winter (What’s in your backyard)
By DAVID WASMUTH
For Montclair Local
November has arrived. Montclair’s human residents have spent the past few weeks transitioning to their cold-weather wardrobes; T-shirts and shorts have been put away, sweaters and sweatshirts dug out of the bottoms of draws. The ...
Leaf blowers: Enemies of beautiful wildlife (What’s in Your Backyard)
What to do with your fallen leaves? As much as possible, leave them where they fall, David Wasmuth says.
A raucous summer of backyard birds (What’s in Your Backyard)
A great deal of the backyard bird entertainment begins with a racket.
Bumblebees: The sumo wrestlers of pollination (What’s in Your Backyard)
Bumblebees are among the earliest pollinators, emerging on cool early spring mornings when most insects prefer to sleep in.
Favorite flowers, season by season (Gardening for Life)
Environmental activist Jose German-Gomez recommends "working with rather than against nature."
It’s transition time for backyard birds (What’s in Your Backyard)
It would be interesting to read the minds of some of the local birds to understand how they select their nesting sites.
What’s in your backyard: engineering groundhogs
Groundhogs look cuddly, but they are detailed engineers, with a somewhat complicated social life, writes David Wasmuth in "What's In Your Backyard."