Tag: wildlife
Nature’s night lights make summers special
Tami Gingrich offers insight into the unique displays lightning bug make throughout the summer, and offers tips to help their declining populations.
Making a bat house a bat home
Jamey Emmert, a wildlife communications specialist for the Ohio Division of Wildlife, shares tips for making a comfortable bat house.
Bats are essential to the environment and benefit people
While some folks think bats are creepy and should be shooed away, they are essential to the environment and benefit people, especially those in agriculture.
Oh, deer? Maybe not.
Tami Gingrich shares the wonderful benefits staghorn sumac offers to both humans and wildlife.
Hippo-sized risk
Kym Seabolt digs into the logic behind exotic pet ownership and it's costs to the environment when these pets are released into it.
Touched by gold, in nature and life
Tami Gingrich admires the beauty and brilliance of all the gold that summer has to offer.
Battling the swarms
South Dakota's mosquito season is typically gentler than other places Eliza Blue has lived, but this year has been a different story.
USDA continues work on rabies prevention
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will continue field evaluation of the oral rabies vaccine bait ONRAB in eight states.
A bird in the nest
Early in the summer, two gray birds with pale yellow chest feathers started building a nest in the exterior eave of one of Eliza Blue's outbuildings.
Conservation programs open for certain Ohio counties
Enrollment is open for the Upland Bird and the Pollinator and Monarch State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement programs for certain parts of Ohio.
