Ursini’s viper snake – how to identify, avoid their habitat, and treatment for their bite.
Ursini’s viper Vipera ursinii Description: The common adder, long-nosed adder, and Ursini’s viper basically have...
Ursini’s viper Vipera ursinii Description: The common adder, long-nosed adder, and Ursini’s viper basically have...
Pallas’ viper Agkistrodon halys Description: Coloration is gray, tan, or yellow, with markings similar to...
Long-nosed adder Vipera ammodytes Description: Coloration is gray, brown, or reddish with a dark brown...
Common adder Vipera berus Description: Its color is variable. Some adult specimens are completely black,...
Ticks are in the same family as spiders and hence share some characteristics with them (e.g. like spiders, Ticks have…
Wasps and hornets Description: The Wasp, or Hornet (also known as Dirt Daubers, Mud Daubers,...
Bee Description: Bees are flying insects with brown or black, hairy, fuzz-covered bodies (the hair...
Centipede Description: Centipedes have multi-jointed body, each segment having a pair of legs, growing to...
Black Widow spider Latrodectus species Description: Black Widow Spiders are dark, usually black, medium sized...
Tarantula Theraphosidae and Lycosa species Description: Very large, brown, black, reddish, hairy spiders. Tarantula size...
Scorpion Scorpionidae order Description: Scorpions are dull brown, yellow, or black (the most common is...
Water hemlock or spotted cowbane Cicuta maculata Parsley (Apiaceae) Family Description: The Water Hemlock, also...
Poison hemlock, fool’s parsley Conium maculatum Parsley (Apiaceae) Family Description: The poison hemlock plant (also...
Wood sorrel (Oxalis species) There are over 800 species in the Oxalis family. Wood sorrel...
Wild pistachio (Pistacia species) Wild Pistachio plants can grow as shrubs or trees up to...
Wild grape vine (Vitis species) The wild grapevine climbs with the aid of “tendrils” on...
Wild crab apple or wild apple (Malus species) Wild apple, also known as Crab Apples...
Walnut (Juglans species) Walnuts grow on very large trees, often reaching 18 meters (54 feet)...
Tree fern (Various genera) Tree ferns are tall trees with long, slender trunks that often...
Thistle (Cirsium species) This plant may grow as high as 1.5 meters (5 feet). It...
Strawberry (Fragaria species) Strawberry is a small, low growing plant with a three-leaved growth pattern...
Sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella) Sheep Sorrel, also known as red sorrel, sour weed, and field...
Plantain, broad and narrow leaf (Plantago species) Plantains come in two types – broad leaf...
Juniper (Juniperus species) Junipers, sometimes called cedars, are trees or shrubs that vary in size...
Foxtail grass (Setaria species) The weedy Foxtail grass is readily recognized by the narrow, cylindrical...