What Is This?

Answers to our wildlife guessing game.

  • NWF staff
  • Sep 18, 2012
October/November 2012



Leafy filefish.

August/September 2012



Long-haired porcupine in Costa Rica.

June/July 2012



Face of a circada.

April/May 2012



Flock of starlings flying over Rome.

February/March 2012



This is the crawly underside of a yellow woolly bear caterpillar. Later in life, the caterpillar will metamorphose into a Virginia tiger moth.

December/January 2012



This photo of a moose was taken by Marty Maxwell in Chugach State Park, Alaska.

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