Caterpillars are eating my garden greens. More accurately, they are voraciously consuming every leaf in sight, leaving me almost nothing but skeletonized shadows of the leaves’ former flourishing selves.

Beachcomber and paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam needed something he could really sink his teeth into. He found it in a discovery about a small mollusk called a chiton.

Raccoons and their babies (called kits) seem to be everywhere, both day and night – climbing trees, wandering under the porches or decks, roaming the beaches and generally strolling about yards, woodlands and even Island towns.

Well-named species make me happy.

Carpenter bees are coming out of the woodwork.

Every seashell has a story, and we are lucky enough to have a seasoned storyteller in our midst to tell it.