Practical nature tips for people who give a shit

Can you keep a pet opossum? In most of the United States, no. Keeping a Virginia opossum as a pet is illegal in more than half the st [...]

If you want raccoons gone, the move that actually works is the one nobody wants to hear: find what they’re eating and how they& [...]

Deer eat milkweed. They don’t love it, they won’t always touch it, but they eat it, and the gardener who planted three bu [...]

Owls do eat snakes, and the more interesting question is how they manage it, particularly with venomous species, where the obvious fo [...]

Let’s be absolutely clear: owls are not out to get you. But they’re not completely harmless if you wander into the wrong [...]

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 [...]