I love this time of year. Midsummer is a great time for a wide variety of reasons. The pressures of springtime mating are over for the birds and mammals. It is a time of abundance and relaxation ...

Summer is a busy, noisy time for insects. The season’s long, sunny days are filled with their sounds. Crickets are singing loudly to serenade a mate, the calls of water boatmen are reverberating ...