Before we get too deep into "Spooky Season" let's take a break from creepy crawlies and return to the world of birds.  Grebes are a diving bird with one of the most elaborate courtship rituals in the bird kingdom.  Learn everything you didn't know you needed to know about this amazing bird on this episode!

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Happy Fall to my Northern Hemisphere listeners - Happy Spring to the New Zealanders and anyone else in the Southern Hemisphere!  In this Dispatch: Fall colors, mummified bats and a foray into the home school community!

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Grasshoppers have been around for 250 million years.  They're so common that we kind of take them for granted.  But what do you really KNOW about grasshoppers?  Well, learn more about them on this episode!

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What's been happening here at Dispatches HQ?  It's starting to feel like fall - a brief pelican update, coyotes playing the long con, cat-faced orb weaver spiders and lazy teenage great horned owls.  Check it out!

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Last episode I talked about butterflies, this episode is about moths.  How are they different from butterflies?  How are they the same?  I'll also tell you about a moth that's a punk-rock pirate.

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An addendum to Episode 81 (Butterfly Royalty) regarding Monarch butterfly conservation, the Swainson's hawks are back in town, and a couple of corvid incidents.  Check out what I've been seeing and doing the last couple weeks!

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Monarchs and milkweed go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly.  Viceroy butterflies look an awful lot like monarchs.  Learn more about these beautiful pollinators in this episode!

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Scorpion hunting and ball moss in San Antonio, TX plus Katarina receives a gentleman caller.  Find out what I've been up to for the last couple weeks!

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Another arachnid that's not a spider - but this one is not likely to be mistaken for a spider like Solifuges and Harvestmen!  Learn more about scorpions (the animal, not the band!) including their surprisingly romantic mating ritual.

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The final pelican update of the summer (unless they surprise me!), the rules of collecting roadkill and a really big kitty that I (sadly) couldn't bring home.

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