Narrowleaf cattail is noted for attracting wildlife. Dense stands of cattails provide nesting areas and cover for many species of wetland animals plus their leaves provide nesting material for a number of different species of wetland birds including yellow-headed blackbirds, red-winged blackbirds, mar...
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Beavers like to eat water plants such as water lilies and cattails. They also eat the bark and twigs of several trees, including poplar, aspen, willow, and maple. How do beavers build their shelters? Beavers stack up long, thick logs with heavy rocks holding down the logs. They then pa...
Sundew plants trap their prey with their sticky appendages. When the insects are ensnared by the plant, the sundew curls its edges around the prey. The plant does not fold in half like a Venus fly trap, instead the plant curls just enough to contact the insect with more of the hair stal...
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During the fall and winter months, they switch primarily to bark and wooded plants. The North American beaver seems to favor poplar, beech, alder, maple, and aspen trees. This clever creature can create a canal leading from the food source back to the dam. Beavers are herbivores. Predators...
Their staple diet consists of aquatic plants such as grains, rhizomes, roots, stems, cattails, water lilies, duckweed, leaves, black willow tree bark, tubers, and white clover. Nutria also eat food crops such as corn, rice, alfalfa, and sugarcane. They are known to occasionally consume ...
small plants and debris. The newly hatched gulls do not fly away from the nest area until they are about 50 days old. It is not uncommon for the young gulls to return to the nesting territory to rest and be fed for another 50 days. The Great Black-Backed Gull is a “four-year gull...
I was intrigued—why would someone drive a boat through cattails all the way around, over and over? There were numerous tracks through the cattails. I found out later, that the “cattails” were wild rice plants, and the boats that harvested the rice made the trails, bending the rice over...
and their burrowing sometimes weakens earthendamsand dikes. Eating mostly grasses and cattails, muskrats consume the roots and stalks of a wide variety of other aquatic plants; they are, however, occasionally predatory, taking freshwater mussels, snails, crustaceans, salamanders,fish, and young bird...