Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Thought

“If earth’s social organisms are scored by complexity of communications, division of labor, and intensity of group integration, three pinnacles of evolution stand out: humanity, the jelly-fish-like siphonophores [e.g. Portuguese Man o’ War], and a select assemblage of social insect species.” ~ E.O. Wilson

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