Nature News Radio Program

02/11/2022

02/11/2022

A beautiful and interesting multicolored mud dauber nest found recently on a trip to upstate South Carolina

09/23/2021

How to make a seed shooter out of an English Plantain w**d (Plantago lanceolata)

09/23/2021

Shooting Dan Lazar of NATURE NEWS with a Burdock "bomb" (the sticky seed capsules of the Burdock plant)

09/23/2021

NATURE NEWS visited Mills River Park in Henderson County NC for a broadcast in September 2021. We explored one of the "unmanaged" wildflower and plant borders and found lots of interesting plants, flowers, insects, and more. Here are some photos.

08/13/2021

Here are some more photos from Part Two of our hike up the Fryingpan Tower Trail near Mount Pisgah on August 5, 2021

08/07/2021

Dan Lazar and Carlton Burke of NATURE NEWS visited the Firetower Trail on Fryingpan Mountain near Mt. Pisgah just off the Blue Ridge Parkway for our Saturday, August 7, 2021 broadcast, Part
One. Here are some photos from our trip!

07/30/2021

NATURE NEWS hosts Dan Lazar and Carlton Burke visited the NC Arboretum in Asheville, on July 29 and recorded their Saturday morning broadcast for July 31 as they walked about the grounds of the Arboretum near the Baker Center building and the adjacent Natural Gardens Trail. Some of the highlights and photos shared here include some yellowjacket nests they were dug out and destroyed by most likely hungry bears or skunks feeding on the yellowjacket grubs, pipevine swallowtail caterpillars feeding on pipevine planted along a trellis walkway by the Baker Center, recently hatched baby five-lined skinks and a hatchling fence lizard, rattlesnake plaintain, an amanita mushroom, crabapple tree with developing fruit, young sassafras berries, and more.

07/16/2021

Here are some photos from the Blue Wall Preserve in upstate South Carolina. Carlton Burke - NATURE NEWS

07/16/2021

NATURE NEWS visited the Blue Wall Preserve in upstate South Carolina on July 14, 2021. This 575 acre preserve is open to the public and is managed by the Nature Conservancy. It is located at the base of the Blue Ridge Escarpment where the Piedmont region of North Carolina ends and the land begins to abruptly rise into the Appalachian Mountains. The Cherokee Indians once called the escarpment the Blue Wall. The escarpment due to its elevational changes and abundant rainfall, is considered to be one of the most ecologically important areas of the eastern United States. Despite a very hot day, we made many great discoveries of the various plants, animals, and scenery which make the Blue Wall Preserve so special. Here are some photos I took that day of some of our natural discoveries. Carlton Burke - NATURE NEWS

09/05/2020

NATURE NEWS recently visited the home of Jeff and Kathy Boyea in Alexander, just north of Asheville, NC and Jeff helped us to explore the acreage around his home which is a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Jeff has made many "nature finds" on his property

09/03/2020

Dan Lazar took this video of a Red-footed Cannibal Fly (also known as a Robber Fly) feeding on a honeybee. When you look close, you can find all kinds of dramas going on in the animal world

03/22/2019

Carlton gets ready to release a Great Horned Owl after a lengthy rehab process. The owl flew off beautifully into a wooded area where he was originally found injured, in Brevard, NC

03/21/2019

Eagle on Nest at Lake Junaluska.