Wildlife

The bold pattern and colors of the eastern milksnake are key for identification

Suitland Bog escaped development to offer a relic community of carnivorous plants

The City Nature Challenge uses community science to highlight urban species.

Neighborhood flower farms support the local economy while helping keep our waters clean.

Brood X cicadas emerge every 17 years to blanket the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Native plants are key in supporting local wildlife

These six species travel great distances to visit the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Skunk cabbage has the ability to create its own warmth and serve as an early food source for pollinators.

Bees, butterflies, moths and other insects use leaf cover to weather the winter

As climate change claims tidal marshes, the saltmarsh sparrow struggles to survive