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Bryan Pfeiffer

Montpelier, United States
As seen in: BirdNote, Chasing Nature, Chasing Nature (Podcast), Field Guide to the Anthropocene, Irrational Fear, On the Commons, Substack, The Boston Globe, Acting Class Daily, Audubon, Aeon, Buffalo News, Seven Days and
Field biologist, writer, aspiring botanist, fledgling geezer, boy explorer. (Owned by an English shepherd named Odin.)

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Field biologist, bushwhacker, boyish adventurer, fledging geezer. I chase birds, insects, plants, and ideas about human nature. I write on Substack at Chasing Nature: https://chasingnature.substack.com/

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Letter from Flight Season

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By Bryan Pfeiffer
| Chasing Nature
Here in New England, we’re into the “Season of Maximum Flight.” That’s what I call the period from late June into early July, when lots of birds feed fledglings and charismatic insects fly in abundance. I’ve been in the thick of it. Which is why this solstice letter to paying subscribers is coming to you a bit late.
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Sex, Theft and a Beetle

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By Bryan Pfeiffer
| Chasing Nature
Dogbane Leaf Beetle / © Bryan Pfeiffer In a culture drawn to sex and shiny objects, it would seem hard to overlook the Dogbane Leaf Beetle. Along with its rainbow glow, this beetle is promiscuous, polyamorous, and poisonous. It’s a heck of a lifestyle. Which is why the Dogbane Leaf Beetle came to mind after I noticed a four-part series now running in The New York Times Lifestyle section titled “The Touch Grass Challenge.” Its shocking conclusion: we spend too much time on our phones.
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A Flower Reminds Me Where I Belong

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By Bryan Pfeiffer
| Chasing Nature
A woodland spruce bog in northern Vermont / © Bryan Pfeiffer If you’re a field biologist heading to a bog, your first concern isn’t usually a hot-pink flower. Not that the flower doesn’t matter. It does. But first, you must get to the bog without getting yourself lost. That’s because trails to bogs are rare — at least to most bogs I’ve visited over the past four decades. In the days before GPS, I would bushwhack to bogs with a map and compass.
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