There's a new kid in town. (Well, actually, she's retired and not a kid, but she is a new neighbor at the Columbia Gardeners Long Reach plots.) Nice, huh? She knows what she's doing. Clearly! She upgraded everything about her plot, including putting in a new fence all around it. Lucky me: I got…

Why, yes, that is a photo of a praying mantis killing and eating a humming bird. Thank you, Internet! Carnivores gonna carnivore, right? Apparently, they rather like bird brains, burrowing through the soft-tissue eye sockets and directly into the brain; often leaving the body for scavengers after devouring the fatty bird brains. In general, it's a good position…

I don't know when it happened. Maybe I was in elementary school. Probably. I saw some video, some film, some something or other at school in which a moray eel, its size and strength hidden in a den, darted out and surprise-attacked a diver and then held on. At least that's my memory of what I…