Nature

The monarch butterflies have officially returned to New Jersey for the summer, as WOBM's Justin Louis talks about his Seaside Park studio visitors.

Of New Jersey's 22 species of snakes, there are two that you have to keep an eye out for. Here are NJ's two venomous species of snakes.

Have you noticed that there are thousands of dragonflies that have become active at the Jersey Shore lately? Here's why!

Monmouth County Freeholder Director Tom Arnone said that it'll be the oak tree.

Birdwatching at the Jersey Shore.....Spring is here at the Jersey Shore and this weekend I stumbled across this woodpecker family doing some Spring cleaning of their home....a true tree house. I sat back and watched and photographed their work, I hope you enjoy a look at Jersey Shore nature at it&ap…

This was the biggest spider I've ever seen outside a museum display or on TV, and it was waiting right outside my front door!

If you think that you're hearing coyotes howling in downtown Toms River, no, you're not crazy, but it's nothing to worry about.

It is our best fisherman, the Osprey ..... the hawk of the sea! You'll see them up and down the Jersey Shore coast. This is my favorite bird to photograph and I'm lucky to live in an area with many to view. Just this past Friday at our Community Medical Center Seaside Park Boardwalk Studio…

People have been wondering what the story is behind the strange sounds coming from Huddy Park, so we investigated!

As autumn prepares to descend on Ocean County and Halloween displays stretch across the land (which, in some cases have been up since the middle of the summer), my neighborhood has had something else stretched across it - spider webs. Real ones.