A Lesson for Miss Muffet in Mutualism
By Valerie Fieldwebster If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. - American Quaker saying Mutualism describes the type of interaction, between organisms, where…
Liken the Lichens
By Valerie Fieldwebster Fifteen thousand years ago after the Wisconsin Glacier receded, this area was left with bald rock. The melt waters from this enormous glacier inundated the area.…
AHHHHH! There are bugs in the lake with me!
By Katie Paroschy What are those things crawling below my feet when I’m swimming in the lake? Are those critters good or bad and what can they tell me…
Caution: Poisonous Plants
By Rebecca Willison Stands of Giant hogweed, Heracleum mantegazzianum, have been identified in several areas throughout Muskoka, most notably in disturbed roadside areas within the Townships of Muskoka…