Mammals
The deer mouse sees well in the dark thanks in part to this adapted large body part.
What are eyes?
This tree, native to Pennsylvania's Allegheny Plateau, New York, and West Virginia, can reach over 100 feet in height and is known for its high timber value.
What is the Black Cherry?
This insect has organs under its abdomen dedicated to light, allowing it to be nocturnal, meaning it is primarily active at night.
What is the firefly?
What is the falcon?
The big brown bat uses this skill to locate food during its dusk and dawn feeding times.
What is echolocation
This nonnative plant may seed into the landscape and produces a fragrant flower with long petals and small black berries.
What is Japanese Honeysuckle?
This pollinator uses its strong jaws to bite the sides of flowers to gather nectar without pollinating.
What is the Carpenter Bee?
This bird species is non-native to Pennsylvania and known as the "hunters' bird". Females are referred to as hens, while males are called roosters.
What is the ring-necked pheasant?
Shrews are primarily insectivores and primarily eat insects and other small invertebrates such as earthworms and millipedes. Fox squirrels, however, eat nuts and seeds and are classified as this type of eater.
What are herbivores?
This nonnative species grows to create sprawling arches and dense thickets, while individual stems can reach high into the air.
What is the Multiflora Rose?
This insect is helpful to farmers, due to their diet of aphids and mites.
What is the Green Lacewing?
Once common across all of North America, the population of this quail species has drastically declined. In response, the PA Game Commission has closed hunting of this species throughout the southeastern and southcentral portions of the state.
What is the Northern Bobwhite?
This fungal disease affects the muzzle of hibernating brown bats and has caused many brown bat deaths throughout New York and Pennsylvania.
What is White Nose Syndrome?
The White Oak is a monoecious plant species, meaning a single tree presents with both male leaves and female this.
What are flowers?
This pollinator lays the largest eggs of all insects-- eggs can be more than 1/2 the length of the female's body.
What is the Carpenter Bee?
This raptor is listed as a species of special concern due to its low population and vulnerability due to loss of wetlands.
What is the Northern Harrier?
In a single year, the female of this mammal species can produce three to four litters of pups.
What is the deer mouse?
The acorns produced by this tree are edible and are often consumed by turkey or deer.
What is the White Oak?
The Hummingbird Clearwing Moth starts its lifespan as a caterpillar, then builds this to survive cold winters on the ground.
What is a cocoon?
This native bird will sometimes nest in old tree cavities, old buildings and abandoned woodpecker holes.
What is the American Kestrel?