Ten Things You May Not Know About Honey Bees
Honey bees are really amazing little creatures that fascinate me with all of their cool adaptations. Most of us see them now and then but probably don’t pay them all
What’s Special About NA’s Largest Woodpecker?
If you’ve ever seen a Pileated Woodpecker, you know they are impressive. Nearly the size of a crow at 16-19 inches long, seeing or hearing one of these handsome birds
10 Earthworm Facts that may Surprise You
One of my first “jobs” was picking night crawlers from the ground during rainy nights. My older brother, Don, had the entrepreneurial vision to start a worm business, selling them
Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Red-shouldered Hawks
Last week’s Puzzler was the piercing call of the Red-shouldered Hawk, one of our most common North American raptors. This is a hawk whose call you may have heard as
10 Facts About the N.A. Owl with the Most Varied Diet
A few weeks ago I featured the call of an Eastern Screech Owl as the Weekly Puzzler. Now I am featuring it again, this time as the Weekly Creature Feature. Here
The Bird with the Tiny Body but Large Brain
Years ago I read an amazing book called Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich. This is a book I still own and reference often as it
10 Things You Didn’t know about Opossums
So this week’s Creature Feature… the Virginia Opossum: North America’s only marsupial (mammal with a pouch), the only mammal with opposable “thumbs” and the only N.A. mammal with a