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The photos are mine of the Mirabilis longiflora flowers and Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth and tobacco hornworm. Note the seven streamline...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:21
I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:01
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 05:01
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:33
We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native flora and fauna can cure th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:35
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who had no ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:03
Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 03:47
I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:18
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...
- Added: Jul 04, 2021
- Length: 28:00
The genus Artemisia is found in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. W...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 05:04
From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and a...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Two weird trips to Death Valley: 1849 and 1949. Giants, aliens, underground cities of gold!
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
How did Ooo Ahh Point on the South Kaibab Trail in the Grand Canyon get it’s name?
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 05:03
During our drought many animals are in need of reliable water supply. Attract birds to you with a simple water feature.
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:21
Sandip Roy sends us an audio postcard from the 2014 Indian election season.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
In the twelfth installment of The Taxi Tapes (http://thetaxitapes.com), Sam encounters a fellow cab driver who is fearful of the past.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Starting off on my quest to generate a new piece based on the Moth's weekly storytelling themes. This week's theme is vacation, so here is a tale ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 11:12
This week, our writers are all strangers in a strange land, whether it's familiar, foreign, or in their own backyard. All stories are true and told...
- Added: Mar 18, 2012
- Length: 29:00
One evening during the overnight shift at the Hilton, Sam inadvertently ruins a co-worker’s life.
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 12:25
This week's stories are all about having a bad day-- sometimes, things go from bad to worse. Stories by Bruce Trice, Phillip Taylor, and Taylor Eub...
- Added: Jan 28, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Spending the holidays with the family can be the highlight of winter for those who live far from home. But when a family member dies, returning hom...
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 04:33
When you want fresh vegetables through the fall, you'll want to plant now. Charlie also explains why it's good to be merciless in the mid-summer ga...
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
