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No one could fault you for running away, screaming in terror, if you saw a large, flying, cigar-shaped insect armed with a "stinger" bigger than a sewing needle. Thankfully, the female pigeon horntail wood wasp is harmless. That spear on its rear isn't meant to pierce skin...

The silhouette of a moose is noticeably different from that of its deer cousins. Its bulky, hunched body sits on tall, improbably proportioned legs. And then there's that nose. It's long and broad - a full sixty-five percent of the moose's head length...

Here's a tip: Found earlier this summer in Vermont.

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Jan Van Meter recently spotted "two of these white balls with pink nodes" attached to the twigs of a white oak in southern New York.                      

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