Critters and Plants

Wild Turkey at Window of Arizona Folklore Preserve.It's hard to imagine the turkey as the official bird of the United...

It's actually not hard to imagine why, with their large back feet, these critters can hop a long way. It...

When I was first introduced to the Desert Museum’s new Mountain Lion cub about 7 weeks ago, he was just...

Agua Caliente Park is one of the best picnic spots in Tucson. There are hiking trails too. I am amazed...

Here is an interesting bit of trivia I learned today. The saying goes, "Red touch Yellow, Kill a fellow. Red...

We live in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains. While walking their dogs or hiking nearby, many of our neighbors...

No? Neither had I. So when I asked Mike Foster from the Carr House in the Huachuca Mountains, and he...

In the wild, packrats make their dens (called middens) hidden in thick clumps of cacti or in tight rocky crevices...

The Kissing bug, aka: Conenose bug or Mexican Bedbug is a member of the Triatoma species, whatever that is. The...

They look like hairy pigs, but aren’t. The Spanish, who were the first Europeans to settle in Southern Arizona, called...