Wildlife

Black fuzzy caterpillars are identified by the second color: brown means woolly bear, red means leopard moth, white tufts mean tussock and irritation.

Beavers do not eat wood, they eat the cambium beneath the bark. Here is the seasonal diet, the underwater winter cache, and why they never eat fish.

Veiled chameleons are display animals rather than pets you handle, and females die of egg binding without a laying bin. Here is what they really need.

The imperial moth is a yellow giant that pupates underground instead of spinning a cocoon. Here is how to identify it and why it is vanishing up north.

Up to 400 mantis nymphs hatch from one foam egg case and start eating each other within hours. Here is what to know and what to do with an ootheca.

Monarch caterpillars eat only milkweed and cut trenches to drain its latex. Here is how to identify them and why tropical milkweed causes harm.

Crested geckos live 15 to 20 years, and heat is the biggest threat to that. Here is what determines lifespan and how to give one its full span.

Moose eat 40 to 60 pounds of twigs and water plants a day, and dive 20 feet for sodium. Here is the seasonal diet and why feeding them kills.

Scorpions eat live arthropods and can survive a year without a meal. Here is how they hunt without seeing, the two-stage venom, and what to feed a pet.

A Gila monster clamps and chews venom in, causing severe pain but almost never death. Here is the first aid, why bites are rare, and the diabetes drug link.