Published by UW-Madison, Division of Extension, this guide will help you recognize, avoid, and handle potential problems caused by wildlife, insects, or plants.
Contents:
- Amphibians (salamanders, toads)
- Reptiles (turtles, snakes)
- Birds (defending territory, handling birds)
- Mammals (short-tailed shrews, bats, skunks, porcupines, coyotes, gray wolves, deer, black bears)
- Stinging insects (bees and wasps)
- Blood-feeding insects (mosquitoes, deerflies and horseflies, blackflies, biting midges, ticks, chiggers)
- Plants that are poisonous when ingested (poison hemlock, spotted water hemlock, bittersweet nightshade, black nightshade, jimsonweed)
- Plants that are poisonous on contact (poison ivy, poison sumac, wild parsnip, stinging nettle)
- Plants that cause hay fever (common ragweed, giant ragweed)
- Thorny, barbed plants (bull thistle, beggarticks, burdock, cocklebur, sandbur)
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