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On this new episode of YBYG, Mike gives you the buzz on Hornet Nests in trees and the ground! Plus your 'Buzzy' phone calls!!
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 54:59
Phemeranthus aurantiacus, the former Talinum aurantiacum, is now in Talinaceae, the flameflower family, “a family of two genera and 28 species.” Th...
- Added: Jul 25, 2020
- Length: 04:45
Isn’t it wonderful to live in a region where clouds and humidity and rain are so celebrated? You can identify the natives and converted natives as ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2020
- Length: 05:05
Every time I pull a reference book or field guide off the shelf to read about a recently seen insect I seem to run across a quote by the famous ent...
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 05:19
The desert bighorn is found in the arid regions of the western and southwestern US and across the border in Mexico. Its scientific name is Ovis can...
- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 05:08
Searching our pantry and chest freezer has been quite an adventure. We’ve even found some unlabeled items in the freezer. “What do you suppose that...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:22
There are several species of Marah found in the western US, but only M. gilensis in Arizona. I call it wild cucumber, but another common name is ma...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 04:39
Where we live in southeastern Arizona it has been a very wet winter with rain out in the flats and snow in the hills and mountains. All that moistu...
- Added: Mar 03, 2020
- Length: 05:20
My goodness, there are times that I so miss the Sonoran Desert, especially when I leave the desert grassland and get into the diverse vegetation th...
- Added: Feb 24, 2020
- Length: 05:10
When I was little boy I thought the name yellow-bellied sapsucker was the funniest thing I’d ever heard and though I did know it was some sort of b...
- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 05:23
I enjoy hearing friends talk about the plants that they’ve seen on walks or hikes and when we share our enthusiasm the jabbering is so sweet.
- Added: Feb 09, 2020
- Length: 04:49
Whenever I do of my “pictures and stories” presentations I always show some photos of our chickens, followed by photos of some of the wildlife they...
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 05:16
This week, Petey talks about his experience at the March on Frankfort.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 05:28
There are five species of mistletoe found in Arizona and they all can be found somewhere in southern Arizona at various elevations and on different...
- Added: Jan 17, 2020
- Length: 05:12
Eumorpha typhon or the Typhon sphinx moth is out and about from June to August in the borderlands. I realized very quickly that we had everything t...
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 05:10
Is it acceptable to use fallen leaves for garden mulch and compost making or should we leave them alone? And of course, Mike Mcgrath takes your ph...
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 54:58
There is a road across the grassland and I still go there for stories. I suspect that everyone needs a road or trail or special wild place that mak...
- Added: Jan 03, 2020
- Length: 04:51
We love our annual tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from 30 years ago…kids and dogs and Christmas trees.
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 05:51
Can you believe I was whining about rainfall? It’s funny because as Ms. Mesquitey and I were driving to and from Cascabel we talked about coming ba...
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 05:07
The scientific name for Mearns quail is Cyrtonyx montezumae. The genus refers to its big claws for scratching around in desert soils. It has big fe...
- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 05:07
The photos are mine and of the plant Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum. It sure is nice to have some white flowers mixed in with the oceans of yellow ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:13
Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:10
This week it's our monthly Tin Roof Project, featuring award-winning designer Tobi Fairley. True stories told by the Southerners who lived them.
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A tale of holiday cheer in which I administer a thoroughly-justified dressing-down to an unscrupulous Internet racketeer.
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 14:41
The 2011 Spring Finale is all about interesting animal encounters, some dangerous, some surprising, and all just a little bit strange. Velda Brothe...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1