Here’s the camouflaged looper as I first saw it on stiff sunflower. Photo by Chris Helzer. By Chris Helzer It’s hard to pick a favorite insect, but I have anyway….
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Rebranding Blowouts
Sandhills blowouts are perfect habitat for visual predators like robber flies because there’s little to obstruct their view. Photo by Chris Helzer. By Chris Helzer Blowouts in the Nebraska Sandhills…
The Things That Stick to Us – Seeds
Stickseeds (Hackelia sp) and foxtail (Setaria sp) on pants. Photo by Chris Helzer. By Chris Helzer We’ve all been there. You’re in the middle of a perfectly pleasant walk through…
Tick Tactics
A tick perched on one of the antlers. Photo by Chris Helzer. By Chris Helzer I found a deer carcass one April day while walking around my family prairie. I’m…
Photographing the Other Fall Color
…pretty well – native ones, anyway – well into the winter unless they get squished down by snows,” said Chris Helzer, an ecologist with The Nature Conservancy and also a…
Advancing Groundhogs
Woodchucks have colonized central and western parts of the Platte River at a rate of about 6 miles a year since 2000. Photo by Chris Helzer By Keith Geluso Groundhogs,…