TRR photo by Scott Rando This harvestman is perching on a water bottle. The legs are very fragile, and this harvestman has one leg that is missing.

Daddy longlegs: spider or not?

Almost everyone has walked on the patio or near the side of a house and spotted the spider with long legs and almost no body, with legs so spindly that they seem to be as thin as a hair. This is the well-known daddy-longlegs spider, also known as the harvestman. But wait a minute: is this eight-legged critter a spider at all?

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The upper Neversink at last

“A dream come true.”

— The Old Grouch

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The amazing journey

Naturalist Wesely to lead program on monarch butterflies

MILANVILLE, PA—Naturalist Ed Wesely will present a program on the life cycle of the monarch butterfly at the Butterfly Barn Nature Center on Saturday, August 23 at 10:00 a.m.

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