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1. It was a itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot, ah, salamander! The photo reveals a spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum).
True
False
2. These sunny flowers dot the countryside or rather color the countryside yellow. The flowers of golden ragwort have centers of yellow disk florets.
3. White circular patterns or “spectacles” encircling eyes and black lores extending from a heavy beak characterize this yellow-breasted chat.
4. When not coiled in a tight circle, this centipede may be found crawling across the forest floor on up to 100 legs.
5. This sphinx moth displays colorful concentric circles or “eyespots.”
6. This round smudge of pale greenish color is moss growing upon sandstone.
7. Named – as a box turtle is – for the shape of its shell, this pancake tortoise has a shell that is nearly a perfect circle.
8. This little curl, called a fiddlehead, is the flower of a fern.
9. This snail is a right-handed one. (But, if it could, it would say “Look, Ma, no hands!”)
10. Those pretty polka-dots on black wings and the likelihood of feeding on flowers during daytime and its fast darting or skipping flights announce that this Lepidoptera is a skipper.
11. The northern flicker (Colaptus aurutus) frequently hunts upon the ground, finding ants to consume.
12. A spot check of this spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius) reveals no spots, but that’s because it is a juvenile.