Practical nature tips for people who give a shit

Wait, is it possum or opossum? Both are correct. Which one applies depends entirely on which animal you’re talking about, and m [...]

Raccoons have plenty of natural predators. Coyotes, great horned owls, bobcats, red-tailed hawks, and in Florida even alligators all [...]

Milkweed is not illegal to grow in most of the United States. That’s the short answer, and for the vast majority of homeowners [...]

The conversation around planting milkweed for monarchs has produced something that was probably inevitable: a huge amount of people d [...]

Most people who plant cardinal flower think of it as a hummingbird attractor. That framing is accurate, but incomplete. The ruby-thro [...]

Before anything else: which sparrow are you dealing with? If the answer is house sparrows, the chunky, aggressive, brown-streaked bir [...]

Crows eat eggs, nestlings, and given the opportunity, they’ll eat adult birds too, though that’s considerably rarer. If y [...]

Raccoons are genuinely intelligent animals. They’re curious, dexterous, capable of learning, and, when raised from kithood by p [...]

Yes, toads are poisonous to dogs. Every toad species produces some level of toxin from the bumpy glands behind its eyes. When a dog l [...]

Wolf spiders bite. They’re capable of it, and under the right circumstances they will. But “the right circumstances&#8221 [...]