Wildlife

Monarch, viceroy, fritillary or painted lady? Here is how to identify every common orange butterfly, plus what the color symbolizes.

Possums eat insects, carrion, fruit, rodents and almost anything else. Here is the full diet, what changes in winter, and what baby possums eat.

Chigger bites cluster at the sock line and waistband, flea bites hit the ankles. Here is how to identify, treat, and prevent each one.

Possums are far less dangerous than they look. Here is the truth about rabies, bites, disease, and the real risks to dogs, cats, horses, and chickens.

A yellow ladybug can be one of several beetles, from mildew-eating 22-spot ladybirds to pale Asian lady beetles and squash beetle pests. Here is how to tell them apart.

Stink bugs feed on plant sap through piercing mouthparts, favoring fruit, tomatoes, and soybeans. Here is what they eat, what they damage, and why they invade homes.

Blue butterflies range from common backyard blues to the endangered Karner blue and the rainforest only blue morpho. Here is how to tell them apart.

Koalas eat almost nothing but eucalyptus leaves. Here is how that narrow diet works, from toxin filtering livers to what joeys eat before they graduate to leaves.

Asian lady beetles and native ladybugs look almost identical at a glance, but the M-shaped marking, color range, and winter behavior give them away every time.

What’s called an ‘earwig bite’ is really a mild pinch from its pincers, not a bite at all. Here’s what it actually feels like and the ear myth debunked.