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Two men who enjoy looking for antlers share their insights on why you should also be looking for these natural treasures.
The Capreolinae includes caribou deer (reindeer), whitetail deer, roe deer, and moose. As such, they are two different species within the same subfamily: whitetail deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ...
A deer rub describes the abrasions caused by a male deer rubbing his forehead and antlers against the base of a tree. Easy to spot in areas with high deer populations, hunters use them to find ideal locations for hunting. Rubs start to appear in late summer when male deer rub the velvet off their newly acquired antler growth.
Unlike horns which are more permanent, deer shed their antlers and grow new ones annually. Male reindeer, known as bulls, shed their antlers in November, just before Christmas, and grow them back ...
The male deer or bucks grow antlers annually. The mule deer have taller skinnier tines on their antlers where white-tailed deer typically have shorter thicker tines. White-tailed bucks are slightly smaller than mule deer bucks. Whitetail deer excel in various habitats including forests as well as suburban territories, and are very much ...
A trap crop is used for attracting the insect and pests away from a target crop field. Many trap crops have successfully diverted pests from focal crops in small scale greenhouse, garden and field experiments; [ 1 ] a small portion of these plants have been shown to reduce pest damage at larger commercial scales.
This season, the upland woods appear to be producing what the old timers called "a bumper crop" of wild mast again. So deer hunters should set up their stands near the heavily laden apples and ...
The mule deer's tail is black-tipped, whereas the white-tailed deer's is not. Mule deer antlers are bifurcated; they "fork" as they grow, rather than branching from a single main beam, as is the case with white-tails. Each spring, a buck's antlers start to regrow almost immediately after the old antlers are shed.