Suzan Bellincampi
It was never a good idea to bug Johan Christian Fabricius.
Asklepios, the Greek god of healing and medicine, was known for his life-savings abilities.Ironically, the genus of his botanical namesake, Asclepia, contains plants that can be killers.
The housing crisis affects us all.
While the ups and downs of the Island real estate market are not a major concern for these crustaceans, they do have their own domicile dilemma. A version of the Vineyard shuffle is undertaken by hermit crabs year-round.
We are all fired up at Felix Neck!
And why shouldn’t we be? Summer staff is here, camp is going strong and we are getting ready for the big parade next week. But it isn’t just the kids and counselors who are animated.
Our fields are full of light and love in the form of bright beetles. I know exactly what Bishop Reginald Heber was experiencing when he observed, “Before, beside us, and above, the firefly lights his lamp of love.”
It might be taking it too far calling us two peas in a pod. The more I learn, however, the more alike we seem.
Newspaper man Horace Greeley was overly optimistic in his assessment of the outcome of the battle between human and pest. In the mid 1800s, he insisted that “Man is bigger than the potato bug and he will master it.” I hope Horace wasn’t a betting man.