Portugal

Brown-banded Cockroach

Females glue egg cases to furniture

Ortolan Bunting

The tradition of hiding your face with a napkin or towel while eating this bird was begun by a priest who was a friend of the great French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

Cinereous Vulture

This vulture can fly at great heights. At least one was found a few thousand feet from the top of Mount Everest.

Eurasian Jay

The Eurasian jay has the ability to mimic other sounds

Whiting

"Whiting" can refer to certain other species of ray-finned fish

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.

Codling Moth

Pupae are able to undergo diapause to survive poor fruit yield years and winter.

Spinosaurus

The Spinosaurus is the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered!

Apple Moth

In Australia the LBAM causes $21.1 million annually in lost production and control costs

Allosaurus

Differnt Lizard” or Allosaurus weighed around two tonnes that is almost equal to a car.

Peppered Moth

Teachers in schools often use the evolution of the peppered moth as a good example of Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

Viper

Vipers are one of the most widespread groups of snakes and inhabit most

Wax Moth

The Wax Moth larvae are more dangerous than the adult.