Mighty Mites of the Catskills and Other Little Critters! (What’s alive in the forest floor?)

Face to face with the spider Callobius

This last week’s snowfall made a post about spring garden flowers seem somewhat unseasonal. During the warm spell preceding the snow fall, however, I sampled some leaf litter from my backyard, and I found some interesting critters doing their thing to help break down the fallen leaves from last summer.…

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