Wildlife is all around us and there are many interesting creatures that can be found in your own backyard. Take a walk outside and explore using your senses of sight and sound and you will be surprised what you might find. This issue focuses on four types of backyard bugs: cicadas, fireflies, June bugs and pill bugs.
Texas is home to about 30 different species or types of turtles. All species of turtles have some adaptations in common, but they look very different and have special parts, or structures, that function differently depending on their diet and habitat.
The roadrunner is a bird named because of its ability to run quickly. Roadrunners are in the cuckoo family. In Latin, the scientific name Geococcyx californianus actually means Californian earth-cuckoo. In Texas we have the Greater Roadrunner, one of two species or types of roadrunners found in the world. The other type, the Lesser Roadrunner, lives in Central America and Mexico. Greater Roadrunners live year-round in the southwestern part of the United States, across Texas and Oklahoma and into Mexico.
Foxes live around the world in many different types of habitat from the snowy arctic to the hot desert and even in trees. Some foxes have even adapted to live in urban environments like our neighborhoods. There are three types of foxes that live in Texas: the swift or kit fox which lives in the north western part of the state, the red fox which lives in the eastern and central parts of the state, and the most common, the gray fox which is found statewide.
Wildlife is all around us and there are many interesting creatures that can be found in your own backyard. Take a walk outside and explore using your senses of sight and sound and you will be surprised what you might find. This issue focuses on four types of backyard bugs: cicadas, fireflies, June bugs and pill bugs. 
Texas is home to about 30 different species or types of turtles. All species of turtles have some adaptations in common, but they look very different and have special parts, or structures, that function differently depending on their diet and habitat. 
The roadrunner is a bird named because of its ability to run quickly. Roadrunners are in the cuckoo family. In Latin, the scientific name Geococcyx californianus actually means Californian earth-cuckoo. In Texas we have the Greater Roadrunner, one of two species or types of roadrunners found in the world. The other type, the Lesser Roadrunner, lives in Central America and Mexico. Greater Roadrunners live year-round in the southwestern part of the United States, across Texas and Oklahoma and into Mexico. 
Foxes live around the world in many different types of habitat from the snowy arctic to the hot desert and even in trees. Some foxes have even adapted to live in urban environments like our neighborhoods. There are three types of foxes that live in Texas: the swift or kit fox which lives in the north western part of the state, the red fox which lives in the eastern and central parts of the state, and the most common, the gray fox which is found statewide.