Agalinis purpurea (known by common names including purple false foxglove and purple gerardia) is an annual forb native to the eastern United States and Canada, which produces purple flowers in late summer or early fall.

Rudy Shares a paraphrase of "Come Little Leaves" by George Cooper.

A listener encounters a snake and doesn't recognize the species...

A listener sees a mushroom completely covered in fly larvae.

Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. Nearly all species are solitary (with the exception of some group-nesting Ageniellini), and most capture and paralyze prey.

A listener reports seeing a writing spider in its web; as he approached, the spider started bouncing in the web.

Storeria dekayi, commonly known as the brown snake or De Kay's snake, is a small non-venomous species of snake in the family Colubridae.[3][4] Seven subspecies are recognized as being valid.

A listener reports seeing a lunar moth that has just emerged from the cocoon. The Luna moth (Actias luna) is a Nearctic moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae, a group commonly known as giant silk moths.

The Mexican free-tailed bat or Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is a medium-sized bat native to the Americas, regarded as one of the most abundant mammals in North America.

The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia.