You might say Christine and Scott Peters got smoked the other day when they were out on a walk in Newport News Park. The two came across puffball mushrooms and a bombardier beetle, both of which have ...

Although puffballs are not really abundant anywhere, I seem to see them in many different environments, from the plains near the Coalton trailhead to meadows above the Mountain Research Station. My ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...