Category: Arb Talk

If you’ve ever heard anyone say that it “smells like Fall”, they’re not making it up – the processes that plant life goes through while preparing for winter produce the…

Garlic Mustard or Alliaria petiolata, is native to Europe and usually found from Czechoslovakia to Italy. Now the weed can be found in areas such as New Zealand, North Africa,…

Carleton students have a wide-range of experiences with the Arboretum. Although there are countless activities for students to choose from when exploring the arb, many students have a hard time…

Some insects have the strangest, sci-fi-inspiring characteristics. On some dead trees in the Arb, sometimes you can see small but deep holes on the trunk. The holes can be caused…

(Mirror: Birding certainly is not my task. ‘Tis the binoculars whom you’d ask.) If there are birds that perplex novices and experts alike, the warblers are sure to be among…

Walk down by the Cannon river these days and you are sure to find (or trip over, like I do) green and rowning spheres, the size of golf balls. These…

Violence, bloodshed, disease, horror, and death. In the Arb, dangers lurk at every corner, and every day is a new struggle to survive, but not for humans. Unlike Arb residents,…

Humans at Carleton share the Arb with remarkable species. Some of these creatures are abundant and conspicuous, while others are less in number and reclusive. Fishers (Pekania pennanti) are a…

If you take a walk around Lyman Lakes or the Cannon River these days, you can see many anglers. Indeed, with the nice weather and lack of mosquitoes, fishing could be the most enjoyable activity in nature around the waters.

Northfield is in full color: blue phlox and false-rue anemone are in bloom, the wild plums are on display, and hundreds of brightly-colored tropical birds are finding a temporary home in the Arboretum.