HeyJaredBob Confer
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CONFER: Colorful crawlers that aren’t caterpillars (opens the original)
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Many worm-like insects and arthropods like grubs, beetle larvae, centipedes, and millipedes arenât the most popular creatures in the world. Seeing such crawlers can make a personâs skin crawl and even just hearing the word âmaggotâ can turn someoneâs stomach. Oddly, though, caterpillars get a free pass. Maybe itâs because everyone knows they turn into things more beautiful in adulthood â butterflies and moths. Itâs more likely that theyâre accepted because some caterpillars are
CONFER: 2026 and the reign of the monarchs (opens the original)
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The plight of the monarch butterfly has been well documented. Their population has been in such dramatic decline that the once-common insect is now listed as âendangeredâ under Canadaâs Species at Risk Act and the US Fish and Wildlife Service has a proposed, not yet finalized, listing of âthreatened.â After observing a good seven years of increased numbers that gave me hope for recovery of the orange and black beauties, in 2024 that hope was dashed as I saw very few monarchs. As a matt
CONFER: 2026 and the reign of the monarchs (opens the original)
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The plight of the monarch butterfly has been well documented. Their population has been in such dramatic decline that the once-common insect is now listed as âendangeredâ under Canadaâs Species at Risk Act and the US Fish and Wildlife Service has a proposed, not yet finalized, listing of âthreatened.â After observing a good seven years of increased numbers that gave me hope for recovery of the orange and black beauties, in 2024 that hope was dashed as I saw very few monarchs. As a matt
CONFER: Ridgewalk offers a connect to nature and community (opens the original)
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Most readers of this column hail from Niagara County, where the terrain can be flatter than a pancake. Coming from that environment, most donât think of Western New York as having steep, wooded hills big enough that many would call them mountains. There actually is a stretch of such mountains to the southwest of Wellsville in Allegany County. Parts of the town of Alma feature the highest land in New York state outside of the Adirondack and Catskill mountains. Sorry, there are no recent results
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