From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Since I took a walk with today's guest about 10 years ago, I've adopted a whole different

way of looking at what I might have once seen as imperfections in plants.

Now when I spy a squiggle in a

Columbine leaf or what looks like a green ping pong ball on an oak, instead of thinking,

what's wrong with my plant? I instead think, I wonder who made that and why. Curiosity has

replaced panic thanks to naturalist Charlie Eisman, co-author of the field guide Tracks and Sign

of Insects and

Other Invertebrates, who's here today to decode some of nature's beautiful little

mysteries for us.

So more in a moment, but first, this message.

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Charlie Eisman is a freelance naturalist and when he's not conducting biodiversity surveys

for clients, he devotes himself to learning more about the natural world. Through an ebook,

he's created on leaf miners and a North American leaf miner project on iNaturalist that

he started that has some 50,000 sightings submitted and more.

Hi, Charlie, and thanks for coming indoors long enough to talk today.

Hi, thanks for having me on.

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