Wildlife

Grasshoppers eat grasses, garden crops and tender leaves, plus the occasional dead insect. Here is what grasshoppers eat, what they drink, and what eats them.

Ants eat sugars, insects, seeds and honeydew, but the mix shifts by species and season. Here is what ants eat, what queens and larvae eat, and why they raid kitchens.

Tomato frogs secrete a white glue when threatened and spend most of their time buried. Here is the care guide and which species you actually have.

Skunk kits can spray from about eight days old, before their eyes open. Here is how they develop and why a lone kit is usually not abandoned.

Coyote pups look like puppies and are taken home every spring, which is illegal and harmful. Here is how to identify them and why to leave them alone.

Enclosed grey ball means hornet, open umbrella of cells means paper wasp, mud tubes mean a harmless solitary wasp. Here is how to read every nest type.

A baby frog is a froglet, and it cannot eat while absorbing its tail. Here is what happens during metamorphosis and how to raise tadpoles through it.

Recluses have six eyes, wolf spiders eight. Here is every reliable difference, why the violin marking is overtrusted, and where recluses actually live.

Foxes are mainly crepuscular, and a fox seen in daylight is not sick. Here is the real activity pattern and how to spot a genuinely ill animal.

Crane flies are called mosquito hawks and eat no mosquitoes at all. Here is what they actually are, plus the larvae that do damage lawns.