Explore the Outdoors!
Here, I write about animals and their small curiosities, feeding habits, and their role in the ecosystem!
Hornets are carnivorous insects that feed on other insects, spiders, and sometimes small vertebrates. Hornets are predators that use their stingers to kill their prey. Hornets are carnivores and opportunistic feeders that will eat whatever insects they can find. In the wild, they mainly eat bees, wasps, and flies. Their diet changes between seasons, as…
Yes, some do. But it is not very common in North America. Instead, the species of wasps that nest underground are most often yellowjackets and some are confused with true hornets. While the only true hornets of North America (The European Hornets) rarely nest underground, their Asian Giant Hornet cousins prefer underground burrows as their…
Birds are diverse creatures that eat a variety of things. The majority of birds are actually herbivores, which means that they primarily eat plants supplemented with a few insects, but most birds will eat what is most readily available to them. Most birds are omnivores and they typically eat various things, including fruits, vegetables, seeds,…
There are a lot of things that you need to be aware of when you’re setting up a new home for your reptiles, and keeping them safe is obviously the top priority. You might want to know: is play sand safe for reptiles? Play sand is designed to be 100% natural and free from all…
Groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, are burrowing rodents that spend a large majority of their lives underground. Groundhogs are native to North America and can be found in the eastern and central United States as well as parts of Canada. Groundhogs spend most of their time underground, but they do come up multiple times a…
Chimpanzees are highly intelligent, social primates that live in tropical and subtropical forests throughout equatorial Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia. While their diet does resemble those of other primates, they are slightly more inclined to eat meat than most of their fellow ape species! Chimpanzees are opportunistic feeders that will eat anything they can get.…
There’s a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about gophers. People often ask if gophers bite, which is a natural question to ask – if you’ve never been bitten by one, that is! The answer is yes, gophers can bite in self-defense! Gophers have sharp teeth that they use for digging and eating grasses and…
Leopard geckos make for adorable and fascinating pets, and they are a very interesting species to learn about. Have you ever wondered: do leopard geckos have ears? Leopard geckos do have ears, although they do not have an external structure in the same way that many other animal ears do. The ears of leopard geckos…
There’s been a lot of talk about armadillos attacking dogs lately. While it’s true that armadillos can carry a number of diseases that can be harmful to dogs, they’re not typically aggressive animals and are more likely to run away from a dog than attack it. So the short answer is that armadillos will not…
Reptiles are fascinating creatures and there is a huge variety of these animals out in the world, all with unique characteristics and diets. You might have wondered, though: do lizards eat frogs? Most lizards are known to eat frogs if they are small enough. The majority of all lizard species are either omnivorous or carnivorous…