Wildlife

A bee in a dream points to work, reward, and community. Here is what a swarm, a sting, a dead bee, and honey each mean.

The gray ladybug you found is probably an ashy gray lady beetle. Here is how to tell it from five other gray species and from the carpet beetle that eats wool.

Cougar tracks are round, 3 to 4 in wide, show no claws and have a three lobed heel pad. Here is how to read them in snow, mud and sand.

Grunts, squeals, woofs and teeth popping all mean something different. Here is how to read every feral hog sound and tell it from a bear or a bobcat.

Elk tracks run 3.5 to 4.5 in long with blunt rounded toes and dewclaws behind. Size, stride, gait and how to separate them from deer, moose and cattle.

A mouse in a dream points to small worries and slow drains. White, black, brown, dead, biting and running mice read differently in each tradition.

What a frog means across Native American, biblical, Celtic, Egyptian and East Asian traditions, plus the readings for a frog in your garden, at your window, at night or in a dream.

Blue spiders are nearly all tarantulas, and none lives wild in the US. Here are the six most reported blue spiders, their ranges, and the only bite that needs a doctor.

What the axolotl symbolizes in Aztec, Mexican, Christian and East Asian belief, what it means as a spirit animal, and what each sighting or dream is read to mean.

Pacman frogs live 10 to 15 years in captivity and 6 to 10 in the wild. The three husbandry mistakes that cut that in half, and how to avoid them.