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This royal butterfly lays its eggs on Milkweed so that its caterpillars can eat the leaves once they emerge.
Despite this nocturnal animal's name, they can only glide by using the wind and air to float through the air.
What is a Flying Squirrel?
This alpine feline is native to the Himalayan mountains, feeding on mountain sheep and ibex.
What is a Snow Leopard?
An acorn is the seed of this type of tree.
What is an Oak?
These many legged animals are not classified as insects, despite often being called that.
What are Centipedes or Millipedes (Myriapods)?
This animal has large and hollow modifed hairs that it uses for both defense and to stay warm in the winter.
What is a Porcupine?
This is the process many animals go through during the winter. Their blood temperature drops, their heart slows, and their body uses fat for energy. Wood frogs even freeze solid during this!
What is Hibernation?
This popular flower has edible seeds that you're likely to see on the floor of a baseball dugout.
What are Sunflowers?
This bug is very noisy so that it can attract mates. It uses a special rib organ to beat against its hollow abdomen. Certain species of this insect only appear every 17 years!
What are Cicadas?
These noisy little frogs make for the perfect ambience of a late-spring night.
What are Spring Peepers?
This is the name of the process that describes an extreme change between the baby/larvae of an animal to its adult form.
What is Metamorphosis?
This plant is distinctive for its three-petalled flowers.
What is a Trillium.
What are Beetles?
This fat bird spends most its time on the ground. It went viral online for its distinctive "Meep" call. Their mating display consists of a male flying up into the air, past the clouds, and then diving back down to the ground.
What is an American Woodcock?
This Kingdom of living things comes in all different types, colors, sizes, habitats, and edibility. Despite not being able to move, eat, or see; these organisms are more closley related to animals than plants.
What are Fungi?
This thorn bush is not native to the United States. Its become widespread through deer, rodents, and birds eating and spreading their fruits and seeds.
What is Japanese Barberry or Multi-flora Rose?
This class of aquatic animals is more related to insects than any other animal group. They range in all different sizes and make up some of the most delicious animals on Earth.
What are Crustaceans?
These giant, white mushrooms look like balls that were left outside. They are edible when young but they are more often broken and destroyed for fun, causing their spores to fly through the air.
What are Giant Puffball Mushrooms?
These fish are one of the most primitive forms of vertebrates. They don't have a backbone, fins, or typical gills. They look like snakes/eels and are mainly known as blood sucking parasites that attach themselves to fish or even humans, using their sharp teeth and suction power.
What are Lampreys?
This Spring plant covers the forest floor with its umbrella-style leaves. When they reach two years old and develop two stems with one single white flower that will develop and turn into a small green fruit.
What is a Mayapple?