Thanks to Don Torino for passing along this article about how studying 100-year-old, soot-covered Horned Larks can help inform us about helping to protect the environment and improve air quality. It’s pretty fascinating and worth a read.

Photo: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

Interesting story by Scott Fallon in The Record about an invasive species called the spotted lanternfly that has been doing a lot of harm to trees in eastern Pennsylvania and could be headed our way. Check out the story here