- Page 2 of 13 Turn your yard into a functioning ecosystem

The jumping spider sitting on your windowsill right now is staring at you. Not in a menacing way, in the way that an animal with exce [...]

Goldenrod gets blamed for a lot of August misery. The sneezing starts, you look outside and see a field of bright yellow, and the con [...]

Before the plant list, one thing worth saying: hummingbirds spend the overwhelming majority of their time hunting insects, not visiti [...]

The fox videos are charming. There’s no getting around it. A fox bounding toward its owner, ears perked, tail going — it look [...]

If something took a chicken from your yard after dark and a hawk is your first suspect, you’ve probably got the wrong bird. Haw [...]

Wild mice are not domestic mice. That distinction sounds obvious, but the gap between them is much wider than it looks. The short ans [...]

Let’s get the nuance out of the way first, because the internet has a tendency to overcorrect on this one. Starfish that live i [...]

It’s easy to see why the idea is appealing. You’ve got a toad living under your porch or hanging around the garden beds, [...]

Here’s what I didn’t understand the first time I tried window decals: birds aren’t afraid of stickers. A hawk silho [...]

Finding a bat flying around your living room at midnight is alarming, and the instinct to panic is understandable. But bats that end [...]