Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the host plant.

The pine warbler (Setophaga pinus) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

Wax myrtle, button bush, sycamore, sweet gum, and other plants are fruiting this time of year.

Pond turtles, or sliders, are specially equipped to spend the winter months in hibernation at the bottom of ponds.

Matelea alabamensis is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family known by the common names Alabama milkvine, Carolina milkvine, Alabama anglepod, and Alabama spiny-pod. It is native to the southeastern United States, where it occurs in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.

The southern house spider is a species of large spider in the family Filistatidae. Currently given the scientific name Kukulcania hibernalis, it was formerly known as Filistata hibernalis. Found in the Americas, it exhibits strong sexual dimorphism. It is occurs in the southern states of the USA, throughout Central America and some of the Caribbean, to southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.

A listener made an unusual sighting...

Exidia recisa (common name willow brain or amber jelly roll) is a jelly fungus in the family Auriculariaceae. It is a common, wood-rotting species throughout the northern hemisphere, typically growing on dead attached twigs and branches of willow and other broadleaf trees.

Earthquakes are not unusual in South Carolina. However, the number of quakes in recent months is unusual .

A listener finds a brown water snake sunning... in December!