Critter Tales

Entries for March 2016

Looking for citizen scientists to hunt bugs with a phone!

Looking for citizen scientists to hunt bugs with a phone!

By Buckmasters Online

Photo: You may have seen one of these bugs around your house. They can be a nuisance, not to mention they smell bad. These are brown marmorated stink bugs, an invasive species from China accidentally introduced to the United States in the late 1990s. You can tell them apart from native stink bugs by their black-and-white antennae and gray underside... READ MORE

Looking for a few black-footed ferrets

Looking for a few black-footed ferrets

By Buckmasters Online

A group of volunteers for the Arizona Game and Fish Department will soon be using spotlighting as a way to identify the number of endangered black-footed ferrets living in Aubrey Valley near Seligman. Two spring spotlighting projects are in the works. The first has been scheduled for late March, and the second for late April. Spotlighting involves ... READ MORE

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