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WHEN the ice melts and the trees bud in the temperate forest, the female ichneumon wasp surveys the land in search of caterpillars. When she finds one, she lands on its back and inserts a delicate ...

You never know what surprises — some hair-raising — are waiting to be discovered when out and about in Penn's Woods. Not too long ago, my friend Stan Galenty and I had searched for plants and animals ...

Many insects make cocoons when they are young to protect themselves from the big, bad world, full of predators (and cable news channels). Ichneumon wasps have a found a way to make this process easier ...

We were coming out of Ron's Berry Farm when I saw it in front of the car. It had a long tail I could easily see out of the corner of my eye as it flew quickly toward a stand of spruce. I stopped the ...

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