Category Archives: Bill’s Notes

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … More on mosquitoes part 2 Last week we talked extensively about malaria and some of the mosquito related factors that were causing it to re-assert … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … More on mosquitoes part 1 Mosquitoes have been around since the middle of the Mesozoic (about 217 million years ago). Worldwide, there are approximately four … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to isten to an audio version of this blog …. The Wonders of wastewater At the beginning of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic it was relatively easy to get data about the number of active cases of … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … For the love of dirt We humans have a tendency to take ideas well past their logical endpoints. Germ Theory is an excellent example of … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Dandelions and guayule You can’t live out here in the West and not think about water. Water is the key limiting factor in our natural … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog …. Tree of heaven and the spoted lanternfly Last week we talked about the tree-of-heaven, a very destructive, alien invasive tree species. In Colorado, tree-of-heaven are … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audioversion of this blog …. Tree of Heaven If you imagine the Colorado rangelands as they were two hundred years ago, you would see a treeless rolling expanse of shortgrass prairie … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Feral cats One of my neighbors here in Greeley has a line of wooden boxes behind her house that are  just visible from the street. … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog ….. Beautiful stories and ugly facts There is a quote in the literature of science that is variously attributed to Benjamin Franklin, John Tyndall or, more … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog …. An unexpected bird Experts rarely agree on anything, but expert bird taxonomists are amazingly consistent in stating that there are about 10,000 living species of … Continue reading →