STORIES by VAL
07/99 Cape Sable
08/99 Raccoons
09/99 Lobsters
10/99 Mule Deer
11/99 Mountaintops
12/99 Loggerheads
01/00 Cave Kayaking
02/00 Juniper Springs
03/00 Geese
04/00 Easter
05/00 Cape Hatteras
06/00 Current
07/00 White Sand
08/00 Meadow
09/00 Dialogue of the Forest
10/00 Steam Tunnels
11/00 Silver Springs
12/00 Night Heron
01/01 Seasons
02/01 The Museum
03/01 Snakes
04/01 Green River
05/01 Picnic
06/01 Horsehair Worms
07/01 Tide Pools
08/01 Corn Fields
09/01 Ocean Night
10/01 Surfaces / Halloweens Past
11/01 I & M Canal
12/01 Lights
01/02 Groundhog Day
02/02 Fish Stories
03/02 Prelude
04/02 Contact
05/02 Bison
06/02 Dad
07/02 Best Beach
08/02 Colloquialisms
09/02 Floating Islands
10/02 Patterns
11/02 Why I Like the Wind
12/02 Flowers Not Forgotten
01/03 Morning Migration
02/03 Detail Matters
03/03 The Net
04/03 Ranch Oaks, Creek Drive
05/03 Me and My Kayak
06/03 Osteology
07/03 The Perfect Lawn
08/03 Mars
09/03 Bear Encounters
10/03 Max
11/03 Rivers
12/03 Is It Really Work?
01/04 Rainy Days
02/04 A Pigeon Tale
03/04 Cranes
04/04 Big Cat, Big Bird
05/04 Eternity
06/04 Boardwalks
07/04 Carp
08/04 My Three Dogs
09/04 Through the Lens
10/04 Relic
11/04 Beneath Our Feet
12/04 Vacant Lot
01/05 The Pits
02/05 First Books
03/05 Morning Walks
04/05 My Garden Rainbow
05/05 Backyard Menagerie
06/05 Packin' It Out
07/05 Learning Curve
08/05 Trivia
09/05 Libraries Old and New
10/05 Encounter
11/05 Mushroom Hunting
12/05 A Tale of Two Ladybugs
01/06 Vultures
02/06 Snow
03/06 What's In There?
04/06 Springtime Serpents
05/06 YMCA
06/06 Haircuts
07/06 Gentle Gardening
08/06 Everglades
09/06 The Greenhouse
10/06 Compost Bins
11/06 Millington
12/06 Aquariums
01/07 Eye to Eye
02/07 Manatees
03/07 My Favorite Zoo Animals
04/07 The Cedar Edge
05/07 Camp Pinewood
06/07 Odd Birds
07/07 Spiders and Leeches and Wasps, Oh My!
08/07 The Katydid Chorus and the Cricket Chorale
09/07 Mysteries of the Deep
10/07 Island Walk
11/07 Experiencing Butterflies
12/07 The Color of Leaves
01/08 Taxonomy
02/08 Mammal Watching
03/08 Getting Lost
04/08 Colors of Childhood
05/08 Cool Caterpillars
06/08 Nature Strolls
07/08 Who Would've Thought?
08/08 What a Big Mouth!
09/08 Discovery
10/08 Left
11/08 When Push Comes to Shove
12/08 Gardens Have To Grow On You
01/09 Under the Bridge
02/09 A New Kind of Beachcombing
03/09 Moths
04/09 Shannon Shores
05/09 Not a Happy Ending
06/09 Fireworks
07/09 Seasons of the Tree
08/09 Garage Sales
09/09 The Big Bugs
10/09 Birding: Up Close and Personal
11/09 I'm Not What You Think
12/09 Christmas Music
01/10 Skating
02/10 Flowers of Grass
03/10 Watching the Big Ships Go By
04/10 Nests
05/10 Of Mice and Mutts
06/10 Monday Morning Music
07/10 Alligators
08/10 Junkyard Art
09/10 Enchanted Rock
10/10 Tiny Eggs
11/10 A Thousand Words
12/10 Nothing Ventured...
01/11 Little Flowers
02/11 Raising Puppies
03/11 Magical Mushrooms
04/11 Old Forts
05/11 The Grass is Always Greener
06/11 Town Lake
07/11 The Darkening Waters
08/11 A Queen's Travails
09/11 Rust, Rust, RUST!
10/11 Blue Lizards
11/11 Faces in the Flowers
12/11 Ice
01/12 Seeing Nature
02/12 What I know About Galls
03/12 Snail Stories
04/12 Funny Things Are Everywhere
05/12 Wasps Without Wings
06/12 What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
07/12 Bagging Butterflies
08/12 Ouch!
09/12 Hordes
10/12 A Matter of Taste
11/12 Pollen
12/12 Carousels
01/13 Sharing
02/13 In Praise of Dandelions
03/13 Plant Eats Toad
04/13 Winnie's Gardens
05/13 Bee-havior
06/13 Living In Leaves
07/13 Field Trip!
08/13 Microscope
09/13 Those Amazing Ants!
10/13 Mutant Flowers
11/13 Now You DON'T See Me
12/13 Lifer
01/14 No Stone Unturned
02/14 Look (at) Ma, No Wings!
03/14 Moss
04/14 Bad Weather Butterflies
05/14 A Planter to Call Home
06/14 Fleeting Color
07/14 Baby Bugs
08/14 Fetid Flowers
09/14 Cicadas
10/14 Famous Snails
11/14 What Is That Caterpillar Doing?!
12/14 The Fauna Project
01/15 The Seer
02/15 Remains
03/15 Putting the Pieces Together
04/15 Giants
05/15 The Water Comes and Goes
06/15 Plant Kingdom Cupids
07/15 Bryozoans
08/15 Tension
09/15 The Mystery of the Purple Larvae
10/15 Spectacular Spiders of the Sunshine State
11/15 How Bugs Breathe
12/15 A Trip to the Tropics
01/16 Crustaceans of the Weirdest Kind
02/16 Aquatic Dance
03/16 Ferocious Fungus
04/16 Peculiar Parts
05/16 The Only Good Mosquito...
06/16 Stage Fright
07/16 Lemont
08/16 Owls
09/16 Sunrise, Sunset
10/16 Creatures of the Night
11/16 The Shapes of Seeds
12/16 Bee Nests
01/17 Buds and Thorns
02/17 Learning
03/17 Lost to Decay
04/17 Landlocked
05/17 Dreams
06/17 It's Not Easy Being a Spider
07/17 A Sense of Curiosity
08/17 Just a Hole in the Ground
09/17 Things Change
10/17 Love Those Limpkins!
11/17 Chrysalis
12/17 Red Berries
01/18 From the Ashes
02/18 Playgrounds
03/18 Redeeming Qualities
04/18 Things I Learned When I Was a Kid
05/18 Subsets
06/18 Jelly Eggs
07/18 Releasing the River
08/18 Variation
09/18 Lifetime Learning Institute
10/18 Ant Allies
11/18 The Glowworm
12/18 Kanapaha Botanical Gardens
01/19 The Xenozoan
02/19 Secret Places

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
09/99 Historical Trivia: J.P. Morgan
10/99 Historical Trivia: The Technology Tycoon Who Made Seattle
04/00 Mom Recalls: Friendship After the War
05/00 Childhood Memories
06/01 Camping, June 2-20, 1961
02/02 Fish Facts
05/03 End of the Iguana
07/03 The Rescue
02/04 Mardi Gras In New Orleans
11/04 Responding to our last issue...
04/05 LARVALBUG BYTES: A Short History
02/06 Lou Ann and Baby
05/07 Porches
02/08 Ice House
09/08 7th Grade Graduation
02/09 Work Days, Then and Now
03/09 Seasonal Notes from a Vintage Gardener
07/09 Uncle Too Fat
05/11 Grandmama Coble
11/11 Mrs. Hurt
03/12 Spring Poems
02/13 The Power of Holding Hands
07/14 My Cousin George
09/14 Following My Intuition in the Fall of 1989 - Part 1
10/14 Following My Intuition in the Fall of 1989 - Part 2
01/15 My Personal Snowglobe
11/16 The Power of Words
02/17 Childhood Play
01/19 Remembering Julia
02/19 LARVALBUG BYTES - The Final Issue

BACKYARD BEASTS by VAL
11/03 Green Anole
12/03 Short-Tailed Ichneumon
01/04 Zebra Longwing Butterfly
02/04 Green Lacewing
03/04 Water Strider
04/04 Agave Weevil
05/04 Marbled Cellar Spider
06/04 Texan Long-Legged Fly
07/04 Banded Garden Snail
08/04 Bold Jumping Spider
09/04 Giant Bark Aphid
10/04 Black and Yellow Argiope
11/04 Virginia Opossum
12/04 Cactus Fly
01/05 Coreid Bug
02/05 Snout Butterfly
03/05 Red Wasp
04/05 Filmy Dome Spider
05/05 Barklouse
06/05 Neon Skimmer
07/05 Annual Cicada
08/05 Big Black Robber Fly
09/05 Giant Swallowtail
10/05 Carolina Mantid
11/05 Scorpionfly
12/05 Green Lynx Spider
01/06 Love Bugs
02/06 Mockingbird
03/06 Elephant Mosquito
04/06 Red-Headed Ash Borer
05/06 Wheel Bug
06/06 Hackberry Emperor
07/06 Owlfly
08/06 Pill Bug
09/06 Glassy-winged Sharpshooter
10/06 Monarch Butterfly
11/06 Texas Wasp Moth
12/06 Potter Wasp
01/07 Black Stink Bug
02/07 Fork-tailed Bush Katydid
03/07 Juniper Hairstreak
04/07 Fiery Searcher
05/07 Ilia Underwing Caterpillar
06/07 Truncated True Katydid
07/07 Pale-bordered Field Cockroach
08/07 Southern Flannel Moth
09/07 Spiny-backed Orbweaver
10/07 Halloween Pennant
11/07 White-tipped Black
12/07 Predatory Stink Bug
01/08 Southern Skipperling
02/08 Jumping Spider
03/08 Squash Lady Beetle
04/08 Moonseed Moth
05/08 Golden Tortoise Beetle
06/08 Firefly Mimic Longhorn
07/08 Vine Sphinx
08/08 Desert Firetail
09/08 Polydamas Swallowtail
10/08 Striped Bark Scorpion
11/08 Aztec Spurthroat Grasshopper
12/08 Eastern Fox Squirrel
01/09 Blue and Red Flea Beetle
02/09 Prairie Alligator
03/09 Genista Caterpillar
04/09 Eight-spotted Forester
05/09 Texas Bow-legged Bug
06/09 Giant Lichen Orbweaver
07/09 Eastern Carpenter Bee
08/09 Rough Green Snake
09/09 Obscure Bird Grasshopper
10/09 Yellowjacket Mimic Syrphid
11/09 Morning Glory Prominent
12/09 Green Roach
01/10 Black-and-Yellow Mud Dauber
02/10 Dainty Sulphur
03/10 Bilobed Looper Moth
04/10 Rabid Wolf Spider
05/10 Saltmarsh Caterpillar
06/10 Ox Beetle
07/10 Mosquito
08/10 Brazilian Skipper Larva
09/10 Large Milkweed Bug
10/10 Tarantula
11/10 Bordered Patch
12/10 Hummingbird
01/11 Honey Bee
02/11 Texas Short-winged Slant-faced Grasshopper
03/11 Southern Yellowjacket Queen
04/11 Texas Patchnose Snake
05/11 Conchuela
06/11 Western Spotted Orbweaver
07/11 Hover Fly Larva
08/11 Rambur's Forktail
09/11 Eastern Leaf-footed Bug
10/11 Tinkham's Shieldback
11/11 Sowbug
12/11 Rosy Wolfsnail
01/12 Ceraunus Blue
02/12 Loggerhead Shrike
03/12 Beautiful Eutelia
04/12 Ironclad Beetle
05/12 Mantisfly
06/12 Green Sweat Bee
07/12 Black Leaf-leg
08/12 Grape Plume Moth
09/12 Southern Dogface
10/12 Crab Spider
11/12 Assassin Bug
12/12 Red Planthopper
01/13 Desert Checkered-skipper
02/13 Henry's Elfin Larva
03/13 Large Carpenter Bee
04/13 Great-tailed Grackle
05/13 Bee Fly
06/13 Prairie Tree Cricket
07/13 Eastern Amberwing
08/13 Mealybug
09/13 Juniper Budworm Moth
10/13 Halloween Harvestman
11/13 Ground Skink
12/13 Iron Worm
01/14 Gulf Coast Toad
02/14 Texas Cuckoo Bee
03/14 Red-shouldered Bug
04/14 Glowworm
05/14 Eastern Blackneck Garter Snake
06/14 Decollate Snail
07/14 Northern Green-striped Grasshopper
08/14 Pantropical Jumper
09/14 Common Mestra
10/14 Hanging Thief
11/14 Black Webspinner
12/14 Mosquitofish
01/15 Mourning Dove
02/15 Convergent Lady Beetle
03/15 Grapevine Epimenis
04/15 Carpenter Ant
05/15 Soldier Fly
06/15 Straight-lanced Meadow Katydid
07/15 Blue Dasher
08/15 Leaf-cutter Bee
09/15 Sooty-winged Chalcoela
10/15 Orange Ant-mimic Spider
11/15 Bee Assassin
12/15 Rio Grande Leopard Frog
01/16 Giant Walkingstick
02/16 Leafhopper Nymph
03/16 Snakefly
04/16 Texas Spiny Lizard
05/16 Yellow Slug
06/16 Antlion
07/16 Camouflaged Looper
08/16 Giant Water Bug
09/16 Northern Grass Mantis
10/16 Southern Black Widow
11/16 Tailed Orange
12/16 American Cockroach
01/17 Southern Spreadwing
02/17 Red Swamp Crayfish
03/17 Feather-legged Orbweaver
04/17 Secondary Screwworm
05/17 Black Vulture
06/17 Snowberry Clearwing
07/17 Texas Rat Snake
08/17 Planthopper
09/17 Darkling Beetle
10/17 Brown Recluse
11/17 Land Planarian
12/17 American Bumble Bee
01/18 Great Purple Hairstreak
02/18 Eggplant Leafroller Moth
03/18 Broad-tipped Conehead
04/18 Elm Sawfly Larva
05/18 Citrus Planthopper
06/18 Cactus Plant Bug
07/18 Tachinid Fly
08/18 Pirate Spider
09/18 Beaded Lacewing
10/18 Stone Centipede
11/18 Globular Drop
12/18 Pseudoscorpion
01/19 Bumelia Borer
02/19 Pollen Wasp

STORIES by LARRY
07/99 War Baby
09/99 Little Soldier Boy
01/00 Medical Monsters
03/00 Georgia On My Mind
06/00 Chance Encounters in the Waves
07/00 My Mentor, Marcile
08/00 Storm
12/00 In a Warm House
01/01 There's a Devil Behind You
03/01 A Stop by the Sea
05/01 Images
09/01 Bloodied But Not Bowed
10/01 Obscure Origins - Cemetery Sleuthing
01/02 The Significance of the Third Of February
03/02 War Bride
05/02 A Proper Honeymoon - Part I
06/02 A Proper Honeymoon - Part II
07/02 Early Travels / Who's Who in "Early Travels?"
08/02 Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What You Gonna Do When They Come For You?
10/02 Cookie
04/03 What is There to Say?
05/03 Westward Ho!
06/03 Oops!
08/03 How I Caused the Great Bay Area Blackout of 1967
12/03 The Ping-Pong Champ
04/04 Kendall Mountain
06/04 Mishaps to My Thumbs
08/04 My First Hurricane
09/04 Just Tell Us the Truth - An Editorial
11/04 The Shaky Second Four-Year Record of Modern Two-Term Presidents
12/04 Minutes to Live
03/05 Growing Old is Fun to Do
11/05 Culture's Architects: Georgia O'Keeffe
10/06 My Favorite Times and Places are Frozen
11/06 Bat Tales
12/06 Culture's Architects: Charles Dickens
01/07 "Hi. My Name is Larry, and I'm an Habitual Collector."
03/07 Leaves and Such
04/07 Bicycling!
07/07 Journeys We Take Alone
08/07 Can You Beat Houdini's Record?
09/07 Training Peri - A "Mission Impossible" Work in Progress
12/07 Bottoms Up!
01/08 Culture's Architects: Lieutenant General Matthew Bunker Ridgway
09/08 "Get the Best! Get Sealtest!"
10/08 A Trip to Taos
11/08 Eclipse
12/08 First Night
01/09 Down the Road
04/09 Spring Break
05/09 Fleas, "Pedes," and Banana Trees
06/09 Japanese Beetles, Stump Burning, and a Boy Behaving Badly
02/10 Hedgehog Philosophy
03/10 A Musical Nature
04/10 Give Me an Old-fashioned Barber
05/10 On Giving
06/10 My Favorite Shark Attack
07/10 While Waiting
08/10 Las Vegas or Bust!
09/10 On Drinking From An Almost Full Glass
10/10 Why I Like October
11/10 If I Could Suggest Just One Thing...
12/10 Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks
01/11 Getting Right With Our Brains
02/11 The Smithsonian Institution - A Centennial Tribute
03/11 Sleep
04/11 Of Aircraft and Me
05/11 The End of Times
06/11 Making the Most of a Difficult Beginning
07/11 When Did the United States Really Enter World War II?
08/11 Are We Better Off A Bit Mad?
09/11 Non-Profit Aid for Caregivers
10/11 Want to Be a Cool, Fool, Ghoul? The Pros and Cons of Trying "Bath Salts"
12/11 The Compassionate Friends
01/12 Liar Liar Pants On Fire
02/12 Acu... What!?
03/12 How Hard Could It Be?
04/12 Doolittle Did Enough
05/12 Snooping with Snopes
06/12 Excessive Levels of Debt and What to Do About Them
07/12 Leon, A Centennial Tribute
08/12 The Youngest Almost Ninety-Year-Old I Know
09/12 Mom's vs. Dad's Vehicular Skills
10/12 A Well Deserved Recognition
11/12 Happy to Be Alive
12/12 On Giving
01/13 Enjoying Our Way Into Good Health
03/13 Legal Theft
04/13 StarDate
05/13 Tranquility
06/13 Wonder Boy
07/13 Ignored by History
08/13 Do You Have the Time?
09/13 Early APE Sessions
10/13 I Think I Khan, I Think I Khan
11/13 A National and Personal Tragedy - Fifty Years Later
12/13 Demise of the Last U.S. Nuclear Bomber
01/14 Eat, Drink, and Be Merry for Your Cardiac Health
02/14 The World Marks a Major Centennial - 100 Years After the Great War
03/14 A Key to Contentment
04/14 Pro and Con
05/14 The Facilities
06/14 How Long Is Too Long?
08/14 My Five Pound Weight Loss Plan
11/14 'Tis the Season to Be Thankful
12/14 Early Christmas Memories
01/15 Women Are Still Waiting
02/15 Old Coots Getaways
03/15 Intro to the ACE Study
04/15 The Brains Collection
05/15 Perspective
06/15 Father Didn't Always Know Best...
07/15 The Statins Solution?
08/15 Stories
09/15 The Plasticity of Potential
10/15 This Halloween, Let Your Natural Killers Loose: Laugh!
11/15 Notwithstanding the Holidays, Five Fine Ways to Reduce Calories
12/15 In the Spirit of the Season: Housing First, Second, & Third
01/16 Word Poor vs. Word Rich
02/16 Want Less Pain? Move More!
03/16 To Be or Not To Be
04/16 Whom Are You Saving It For?
05/16 A Salute to Sandhogs
06/16 Always a Special Day
07/16 Food Group Favorites
08/16 Live!
09/16 First Seven Jobs
10/16 Wind vs. Sun
12/16 The Boy Who Raised a Million Dollars
01/17 Diogenes and the Media
03/17 Terrific Techniques for Likely Longevity
04/17 Healthcare - Can't Live With It; Can't Live Without It
05/17 Living Well On Less
06/17 Simple Ways to Lower Cancer Risk
07/17 Our Cleft Country
08/17 General Anesthesia
09/17 Little Boxes
11/17 ET, Where Are You?
12/17 Next
01/18 Hey, I Can Tolerate You!
02/18 A Fresh Start
03/18 Accident Prone
04/18 On the Water
05/18 A Stitch in Time
06/18 Volunteering to Help Refugee Families
07/18 The New Network
08/18 Be Careful What Questions You Ask and With Whom
09/18 The Sky Is Falling!
10/18 Shoes
11/18 Mama's Mighty Measures for Staying Younger Longer
12/18 Endings
02/19 Pappy's Brand