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1. Poisonous! You would not want to eat the little yellow tomato-like fruit of this pictured plant. It’s in the Solanaceae or nightshade family (the family of tomatoes and peppers) which contains members that are poisonous.
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2. It’s an alien devouring a frog! You and your family must evacuate!
3. Pictured here is a member of the Amanitaceae, the fungus family which includes two of the deadliest mushrooms on the planet.
4. The bobcat is just one of the many wild members of the Felidae family residing in Illinois.
5. The pictured insect looks like a bee visiting a flower for nectar, but this wasp (a yellowjacket) of the Vespidae family is more likely to be engaged in finding an insect so it can chew it up to feed its young.
6. Of the two snake families (Viperidae and the Colubridae) that are indigenous to Illinois, only this pictured species has a pit between eye and nostril, a triangular-shaped head and elliptical pupils.
7. The Nymphalidae butterflies, like this red-spotted purple, are in effect quadrupeds.
8. Birds of the family Fringillidae characteristically have stout bills used for eating seeds or nuts, and so this pictured light-weight American goldfinch (about one half ounce) and a heavy-weight evening grosbeak (more than 2 ounces) are in the same family.
9. Anyone who notices the root “petro” from the Greek “petra” meaning “rock” in the family name “Petromyzontidae” understands why the chestnut lamprey (pictured here) belongs to that family in the class of jawless fish; this lamprey will sink like a rock unless attached to a fish.
10. In Phasianidae (the family which includes turkey, grouse, pheasant, and partridge) two species native to Illinois were saved from imminent extirpation, one of those being the greater prairie-chicken.