Ladies, hike those skirts up!

That might just be the only way to avoid tangling with the house centipede high-tailing it for the shelter under your frock. In a newsletter dated 1902, C.L. Marlatt, a US Department of Agriculture entomologist, described this despised insect this way.

Dick Jennings has a reason to be blue. His beloved red cedar trees on Cape Pogue are bare of blue berries. Naked, scaly branches offer no lunch for wildlife wanting a terrific treat to tide them over. Evergreen red cedar trees nutritionally nurture nature. No less than 70 animal species rely on red cedar trees for food. Birds top this list of cedar berry consumers. Red cedar’s avian namesake, cedar waxwings, is known to consume copious amounts of this fruit, with one study showing that they gobble approximately 683 berries per day!

Go Purple! Whether on the field with the cheering crowds and uniformed players, or in the high grass with late blooming flowers, you are likely to find potent purple power this time of year. Last week, both the MV team, having won the past few games, and the flowering foliage in the field were standing purple, proud and well-watered after all the rain.

The way to this caterpillar’s heart is through its stomach. No doubt you are familiar with the eating machine that is the subject of this week’s article. These black caterpillars with orange stripes have been everywhere lately, in your trees, on your deck, crawling across the driveway and squishing under your feet.