The April 2026 issue of The Black Range Naturalist (Volume 9, Number 2) has been published and is available for you to download or read on-line. This is an advance notice of the formal offering, at this time this issue has not been indexed and is not included in the index of The Black Range Naturalist.
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This issue includes the following articles:
- Lac and Creosote
- Northern Cardinal Nesting
- A Few More Odonata - The 2024 Field Season
- Odonata Updates
- The Glow of a Tanager
- New Exhibits at the Hillsboro Natural History Museum
- Two Stamens - Menodora scabra
- Orange Flying Beetles
- Pleistocene Vertebrates
- Egg Mass on Littleleaf Sumac and Datana perspicua
- Then and Now - As Seen in Maps 54. Exuvium
- Sora in Kingston
- Spine-tipped Dancer Field Verification
- Acrolophus kearfotti
- Hunting and Gathering - Of Poults and Pineseeds
- Identifying Mammals on Wildlife Cameras
- Desert Stalked Puffball, Battarrea phalloides
- Updates and Tidbits
- Bats
- Blister Beetles and Cantharidin
- Humans and the Rest of Nature
- Sex
- Weather
- Monarchs
- White-lined Sphinx Moths
- Social Learning in Birds
- Evolutionary Processes
- Fluorescent Pigmentation in Long-eared Owls
- Dust Storms
- Charles Wright and a Cuban Anole
- Woodrats and Venom
- Mines of the Black Range
- Rio Grande Rift
- Monsoon Rainfall in Hillsboro
- Giant Water Scavenger Beetle (Hydrophilus species) Oviposition/Reproduction/Foraging Notes
- What People are Reading and Listening To
- Rabb Park Trail Update
- Cooperative National Geologic Map
- Records of Vivid Dancer from the Black Range in Grant and Sierra Counties, New Mexico
- Seepwillow - A Wasp Magnet
- Aurora Borealis
- Results of the 2025 Hillsboro Christmas Bird Count
- Bird Cam Images of Sphinx Moth