Earth Agents Team Droid

04/06/2022

Sometimes exploring is a little messy.

04/05/2022

Salamanders and a great start to foraging season!

03/23/2022

Peepers!

03/23/2022

It's that time of year again!!!

01/06/2022

Team Droid has had a rough few seasons. The feeling is shared with many of you, but we, (mostly Amanda) became insular. Now we're poking out of our shells. Sometimes it's hard to go somewhere beautiful and see it full of litter. It's easy to get bogged down in environmental anxiety, and feel guilt about not doing enough while I type this on my phone with a high environmental cost - with lithium extraction, with glass, shipping, awful labor, with....
Stop.
Breathe.
Say it with me -

I ALONE AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE.
REVERSING HUMANITIES DEVASTATION OF THE PLANET DOES NOT REST SOLELY ON MY SHOULDERS.
Repeat as needed.
Breathe.

09/02/2021

Ida's toll may never be never be fully tallied, for there's a storm on her heels.

PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) — Photos show what appears to be a miles-long oil slick near an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida, according to aerial survey imagery released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and reviewed by The Associated Press.

09/01/2021

Loving this book so much!

In “Super Fly” Jonathan Balcombe explores the world of the most annoying creature, moving beyond the buzz and drone.

08/24/2021

We may have spent a Dog Day at Cicadabucks and brought home a special drink to watch molt on a houseplant.

08/18/2021

We haven't been posting here much, but as a family we've been spending a lot of time learning about animals, particularly the new one we brought into our home.
Meet Rowan.

She's Amanda's service dog in training. Yesterday she passed a second temperament test and earned her first vest. She'll help us keep adventuring.

07/26/2021

It is the time of year when I am adorned in exoskeletons, with the occasional injured adult cicada hitching a ride.

07/26/2021

Killian takes on camping!

07/07/2021

While traveling in Kansas I came across the worst case scenario for this amphibian...