by Robert D. Kenney Some three dozen species of marine mammals are known to occur in Narragansett Bay, Block Island Sound, Rhode Island Sound, and nearby coastal and continental shelf areas. Their occurrence in the region has been reviewed in detail in a technical report… Continue reading
REVIEW A Field Guide to the Ants of New England, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Elizabeth J. Farnsworth, and Gary D. Alpert, Yale University Press, 2012. By David Lubertazzi, Ph.D., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Most people can readily identify a foraging ant… Continue reading
by David W. Gregg, Executive Director, RINHS My wife and I are lucky to live in a beautifully unspoiled leftover from Rhode Island’s earlier agrarian days, a small, old dairy farm. The other morning I was walking out to the vegetable garden and just past… Continue reading