Katydids are green insects camouflaged to look like leaves and often found at the tops of trees. It is not surprising, then, that katydids are more often heard than seen.

Learn how raccoons were named, which president adopted one instead of eating it, how recently the Joy of Cooking included raccoon recipes and much more.

You might see a wolf spider in your yard, garage, shed or basement – at least the gleam from the largest of their eight eyes – because these are good nighttime hunting grounds.

You will see these butterflies on native plants such as milkweeds, mints and Joe-Pye weed as well as thistles and clover – but its eggs and caterpillars are all about violets.

Unlike most other bees, which carry pollen on their rear legs, leafcutters carry pollen on the undersides of their abdomens, where it falls off easily. About 150 leafcutters can provide the same pollination results as 3,000 honeybees.

Great egrets are majestic herons with long, beautiful white feathers, and during the 1800s hunters almost exterminated the birds because they so valued them.

Fifty-one species of mosquitoes live in Massachusetts, where they may have been vital in the American Revolution. There are ways to ways to avoid or kill them more safely.

These yellow jacket wasps get up to an inch long and scary looking, with a a well-deserved reputation for aggressiveness – though only when protecting their nest.

Bullfrogs will eat just about any animal smaller than they are. Scientists have found in bullfrog stomachs rodents, lizards, snakes, small birds, spiders and even bats – with a tongue that propels out like a slingshot so frogs can use their hands to stuff large prey into their maws.

Since puffins can live for 30 years or more, one bad season doesn’t doom the species, but a series can spell big trouble for the future of the population – and a series is underway.