Nature

Rudy shares some words from Nathaniel Hawthorne's American Note-Books .

A listener finds hundreds of sea cucumbers on the beach at Pawleys Island.

A lowcountry vet finds a juvenile sooty turn, likely blown in by a storm.

The zebra longwing butterfly is not common in South Carolina.

A listener finds a black witch moth--a rare species for South Carolina.

The southern unstriped scorpion was, for many years, the only scorpion found in South Carolina It is the only scorpion native to much of the Appalachian states: Kentucky, West Virginia (S), Virginia (SW), North and South Carolina (W), Georgia (North, not coastal or southern...

Red bats are common South Carolina.

A listener spots a red-eyed bird he cannot identify.

The caterpillar of the spice bush swallowtail butterfly can produce a "strange" odor when disturbed.

Hiking in Mistletoe State Park a family finds two Carolina pigmy rattlesnakes , the most distinctly patterned, and variably colored subspecie of the pygmy rattlesnake group. The snake ranges from eastern North Carolina, southwestward through most of South Carolina, across...

Rudy shares poems by Charlotte Fiske Bates, " Woodbines in October ," and " Autumn ."

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . Like the Cicada Killer wasp, the large European Hornet also collects insects to feed its larvae, a beneficial habit, but sadly it has a destructive activity of girdling twigs. Removing the bark...

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . It sounds like a tabloid headline – man and dog frantically escape from huge flying wasp! But it’s a true story—I got an email from a gentleman saying that he and his dog was dive bombed by a...

The female common yellowthroat songbird is harder to identify than the male, especially in its first year.

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . Recently, a Sumter County Master noticed silver dollar-sized holes in her yard with soil piled up at one end and wondered if it was a mole or vole burrow, but there weren’t any of the usual...