Smokybrown Cockroach
Has up to 45 eggs per egg case
El Salvador
Dubia Cockroach
The most popular species of feeder roach
Lone Star Tick
Only females have the ‘lone star’ marking
Brown Dog Tick
Can live its entire life indoors
Orange-Crowned Warbler
Often mistaken for the Tennessee Warblers, which are equally dull.
Vine Snake
A slender body and elongated snout give the vine snake a regal look.
Blind Snake
The blind snake is often mistaken for a worm.
Hawk Moth Caterpillar
Many hawk moth caterpillars eat toxins from plants, but don’t sequester them the way milkweed butterflies do. Most toxins are excreted.
Dwarf Boa
Some species can change color from dark to light, and back again.
Killdeer
The killdeer feigns injury to draw a predator away from its nest.
Codling Moth
Pupae are able to undergo diapause to survive poor fruit yield years and winter.
Giant Leopard Moth
When giant leopard moths mate, their mating sessions last over 24 hours.
Dusky Shark
The Dusky Shark sometimes eats trash discarded by humans.
Pit Viper
Pit vipers's fangs fold up into their mouths when they don't need them.
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
In captivity, sharp-shinned hawks can live up to 13 years. However, in the wild, this number is significantly reduced to 3 years!
Magnolia Warbler
They line their nests with fungi strands