The Phytophactor

Yes, please eat it all.  Garlic mustard ( Alliaria petiolata ) is a horribly invasive weed. TPP must make the rounds of our estate two or th...

One of the more distinctive and typical features of the tropics is the inordinate prevalence of ants. This comes to mind because one little ...

Here's a nice post about color vision from a blog TPP often enjoys In Defense of Plants . The two images are great because it shows you ...

It's a wet, gloomy Saturday morning here in the upper midwest, and nothing much to do outside anyways.  Mrs. Phactor has run off to part...