A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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On my birthday, a few weeks ago, there was one thing I wanted to do and that was to go fishing. It was a really beautiful sunny morning and not too hot. I found a nice spot on the St. Regis River off Cook Rd., and I tried out a few lures. It took a while for me to finally catch a pretty good size bluegill, and shortly after that, I got the surprise of a lifetime! I took off the lure and decided to use a worm. I cast the worm out and after a while I felt something hit my line. As I started to r...
The smallest common, but rarely seen, (arthropod) spider relative found in our homes here in Akwesasne is the pseudoscorpion. They are also known as false scorpions or book scorpions. I remember the first time I saw one I thought it was something I surely didn’t want to share my living space with. It turns out though that the pseudoscorpion is very beneficial to humans because they prey on clothes moth larvae, carpet beetles, booklice, ants, mites, and small flies. They are not always easy to...
When I was a child and lived in Cold Spring, NY, I remember my mother did not like spiders. Then one day she witnessed something that changed her mind about them. The place we lived in was constantly infested with tiny reddish colored ants. No matter what she did they kept coming into the house by the thousands. My mom could not do dishes without some of those ants climbing up her legs and biting her. They even bit her while she sat on the couch and even when she was in her bed. She is allergic...
The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberus) is a species of sunflower. It is native to North America from the Northeast west to North Dakota and south to Florida and Texas. It is also called sunroot, sunchoke, or topinambur. The sunroot is an herbaceous plant meaning it is a plant with leaves and stems that die off to the soil level at the end of the growing season. Herbaceous plants can be annual (a plant that germinates, flowers, and dies in one year), biennial (a plant that takes two years...
Bullfrogs are one of the “true frogs”. They are usually green to greenish brown, and on average they grow to be about three to six and a half inches in body length. They can weigh up to 1.65 pounds. There are record size bullfrogs that have been as big as eight inches long. With their legs stretched out you can add another seven to ten inches to the above length. They have a broad flat head, and their eyes are gold colored or brown. You can tell the females from the males by their (ty...
There are more than 3,500 species of wild bees in North America. Honeybees are herbivores - meaning they eat only plant materials. Many Native American Indians used honey and other bee by-products as medicine and food long before Europeans brought their honeybee “Apis Mellifera,” to America in the seventeenth century. Many still use honey and beeswax. Dictionaries have the spelling of honeybee as one word; however, entomologists use the two-word name, honey bee. You can safely use either one,...
