The chances of two adult lobsters making baby lobsters may take a hit from global warming. The carbon dioxide pollution that is playing a role in climate change can cause a weak acid to form in the world’s oceans. That could reduce “the fertilization of marine invertebrates and might eventually wipe out colonies of sea [...]

I don’t know about their spiritual state, but this tub was full of Atlantic mackerel. This is my last Maine-vacation post (go here to see another). 

During one of our last nights in Maine, we went to a harborside lobster pound so my wife could have lobster. Right outside, the locals gather on a dock to fish. They were pulling in mackerel and attracting [...]

I found this tiny frog in my yard the other day. It’s a spring peeper, I’m almost positive. His blog debut is tied to a report I heard on the news the other night that the world’s frogs are disappearing. “Amphibians like the red-legged frog are Earth’s ultimate tough guy. For millions of years they’ve endured – even through [...]

Look what Zachary found in a neighbor’s yard: a Polyphemus caterpillar. Zachary is 8, lives in New Rochelle and is the son of Danielle Perillat, a photo editor here at Lohud/TJN.

This is the second, staff-related Polyphemus incident this summer. Editor Scott Faubel’s wife took a photo of a Polyphemus moth a few weeks ago.

Anyway, [...]

A New Milford, Conn. man shot a mother bear yesterday after it threatened him, according to this story in the Danbury News-Times. They have video and a photo gallery with the story.

Here’s a prior post leading you back to a recap of LoHud bear activity in the spring.

Lobsters are nocturnal and when you ask for lobster tails in a restaurant or fish store, you’re actually getting lobster abdomens. Those facts are courtesy of Captain John Nicolai, who runs a seal/lobster tour boat out of Bar Harbor, Maine. See this post to understand the Maine connection.

Below is a video of Nicolai hauling up [...]

Cornell University has established an Invasive Species Research Institute to help prevent, detect, manage and eradicate those creatures which can do us harm.
“Thousands of animal and plant species from other countries have slipped into the United States posing serious threats to agriculture, human health and the integrity of our lands and waters.”
Read about it here.

For [...]

Did you know whales have bad breath? Apparently they do, according to the naturalist who narrated the whale-watching trip I went on last week.

That—or at least my vacation in Maine—was the reason for my absence for a while from this blog.

Anyway, she said if you’re close enough to a whale when it comes to [...]

An aquatic pesticide will be used next month in an Orange County lake to keep an invasive, predatory fish from expanding its population and possibly getting into the Hudson River, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said yesterday

The fish – known as a northern snakehead – was found in Catlin Creek near Ridgebury [...]

Google large brown moth and sooner, rather than later, you get to a Polyphemus – which is what I think this creature is.

One of the editors here at Lohud/TJN said it was on a tree in his White Plains yard last week. His wife, Terry Hanson, took the photo.