Give A Shit About Nature

Can you keep a pet opossum?

If you want raccoons gone, the move that actually works is the one nobody wants to hear: find what they’re eating and how they’re getting in, then take both away.

Deer eat milkweed.

Owls do eat snakes, and the more interesting question is how they manage it, particularly with venomous species, where the obvious follow-up is whether a rattlesnake or copperhead poses any real danger to a bird hunting it from above.

Let’s be absolutely clear: owls are not out to get you.

Wait, is it possum or opossum?

Raccoons have plenty of natural predators.

Milkweed is not illegal to grow in most of the United States.

The conversation around planting milkweed for monarchs has produced something that was probably inevitable: a huge amount of people doing the right thing for the wrong reason, with the wrong plant.

Most people who plant cardinal flower think of it as a hummingbird attractor.