Jason E. Andersen

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Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination, and where every moment is an opportunity to make your mark on the canvas of existence. The only limit is the extent of your imagination.

  • Lightning bugs

    While sitting on your porch on summer evenings, you can often see little dots of light floating around your yard. Lightning bugs! Bonus Fun Fact: Lightning bugs spend a year or more in the soil as larvae. They spend their time hunting snails, worms, and other insects. During this time, they are susceptible to pesticides in…

  • Outnumbered

    Bonus Fun Fact: There are more bacteria, fungus, and other microorganism cells in and on your body than your own cells. For the average, normal, regular person, there are roughly 30 trillion cells that compose their average, normal, regular body and approximately 39 trillion other little critters that live on the skin and in the…

  • Beetle bits

    Bonus Fun Fact: Airborne predators including bats and birds drop the remains of their meals for us to find them. We spend quite a bit of time on our patio and regularly find insect body parts randomly lying about. The moist tender bits will be eaten, with the tough parts cast aside. It’s much like…

  • Handsome hummers

    Bonus Fun Fact: We only have one breeding resident hummingbird in Iowa, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. You might see other hummers migrating through, but we only have one that spends its summer in Iowa making babies. Bonus Bonus Fun Fact: Ruby-throated Hummingbird nests are about the size of a large thimble and are built from materials…

  • Staring contest

    Bonus Fun Fact: Snakes are champions of the staring contest — they don’t blink. Literally! That’s because they don’t have eyelids. Instead, they have transparent scales over their eyeballs to protect them. You can see this if you come across the shed skin of a snake — they eyeball scales will be there! On an…

  • Know your ivy

    Having a poison ivy rash is like being in an itchy red hell. The key to avoiding this is to be able to identify the plant and steer clear. Because I care about your well-being, and want you to be able to enjoy the outdoors this growing season, here is a guide on how to…

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