You can’t dance to it, and there is no melody nor any lyrics. But the sounds of cicadas are music — music that buzzes, whines, thrums and fizzes.
There’s no beat, no lyrics. You can’t dance to it. But cicada music is the coolest music you know
Category: Pets and Animals
Miniature poodle named Sage wins Westminster Kennel Club dog show
A miniature poodle named Sage won the top prize Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show.
At Westminster dog show, a display of dogs and devotion
For all the pooch pageantry of Westminster — the coiffed poodles, the top-knotted toy dogs, the formality of dogs trotting around a ring — it’s also an illustration of the bond people form with dogs, and what each will do for the other.
Longtime Oak Forest volunteer’s name lives on at animal agency where she helped
Longtime Oak Forest volunteer Laura Gray died at 62 in February. Less than two months later, Oak Forest officials dedicated the renamed Laura Gray Animal Control & Care Center.
Have you met Chicago’s Bug Girl? Janelle Iaccino wants to enlighten the city on the greatness of the creepy, crawly things
When you think of the acronym STEM, you likely know it stands for science, technology, engineering and math. But does it make you think about bugs, rodentia and taxidermy? Janelle Iaccino thinks it should. Iaccino is marketing director of Rose Pest Solutions, a structural pest control company that ensures nature and the environment stay outside […]
Chicago’s famous piping plover Imani has returned to Montrose Beach for the summer
The Great Lakes piping plover population, which reached an all-time low of 13 pairs in the 1980s, has rebounded to around 70 breeding pairs thanks to recent conservation efforts.
Park District names part of Montrose Beach after beloved piping plovers Monty and Rose
The Chicago Park District has voted to rename a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area after Monty and Rose, a beloved pair of piping plovers whose unlikely love story captured the hearts of Chicagoans. The stretch of the lakefront, now dubbed the Monty and Rose Wildlife Habitat, is part of a 3.1-acre expansion of the protected land in Lincoln Park. The Park District’s Board of Commissioners voted on the name Wednesday, which fittingly coincided on Valentine’s Day. Monty and Rose achieved local celebrity status in 2019 when they became the first of their endangered species to raise a […]
PAWS Tinley Park still a month away from reopening after January fire
PAWS Tinley Park remains closed after a fire in January though pet adoptions are still available through the agency’s website