Tag: Food Webs
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Following the Green Wave: How Cuckoos Track Rain, Caterpillars, and Cicadas
by Nicolette L. Cagle, August 14, 2026 In the last post, we followed the cuckoo family through deep time, from the early Cenozoic fossil record to the remarkable diversity of modern cuckoos. We also noted that the modern Cuckoo family extends beyond the notorious brood parasite, the Common Cuckoo, and embraces roadrunners, coucals, anis, koels,…
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Opening the Box: The Eastern Box Turtle and the Forest-Floor Food Web
by Nicolette L. Cagle, Ph.D., May 31, 2026 In the last post, we unwrapped one of the Eastern Box Turtle’s clearest gifts: the seeds and spores it carries through the landscape. We followed Mayapple seeds and fungal spores through the turtle’s body and back into the forest floor. But the story does not end there.…
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What Happens to a Nut on the Forest Floor?
by Nicolette L. Cagle, June 1, 2026 What happens to a hickory nut or walnut after it falls to the forest floor? At first, it can seem like a simple thing, a stored future released from the canopy and left beneath the tree that made it. Imagine a hickory nut resting inside its husk, a…
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