Candy darter part II
Last year, Nick Little – a former VLM colleague, now a keeper at the National Zoo – and I went in search of the elusive candy darter Etheostoma osburni, an exceptionally beautiful fish. Darters are reclusive by nature and finding them at all is the main challenge; in a full day last year, we saw seven […]
Turtle Census Project 2014 – by Educator Susan Summers
In the early summer of 2014 the Virginia Living Museum continued our census of the basking turtles in the lake. We chose three dates during the summer to conduct this project. As we did in previous seasons, students learned about turtle identification, biology, behavior and threats to these animals prior to each trapping experience. With […]
