Caterpillars are eating my garden greens. More accurately, they are voraciously consuming every leaf in sight, leaving me almost nothing but skeletonized shadows of the leaves’ former flourishing selves.

The archery season for deer will be extended by two weeks in an area of the state that includes the Vineyard, state officials announced last week.

The coming week offers all of us an opportune time to go hunting for shooting stars.

Beachcomber and paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam needed something he could really sink his teeth into. He found it in a discovery about a small mollusk called a chiton.

Long narrow wings and a fairly robust body, running along the water’s surface to become airborne, oceanic and a tube on top of their beaks to excrete excess salt. All are characteristics of shearwaters.

The popular freshwater swimming hole in West Tisbury reopened Tuesday morning after being closed due to high bacteria counts.