A fresh rub on a winged elm seen in a flashlight (left), 365 nm UV light (center), and 395 nm UV light. The ability to spot rubs and scrapes is an acquired skill. They may be invisible to rookie ...

Buck rubs here in Western New York and Northern Pa. are beginning to pop in earnest throughout forests, field edges, and even roadsides. And like popcorn, at first their appearance is slow, but as ...

Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

Forget about tracks or droppings. The leaf cover today is so new, so deep that any evidence of deer activity on the ground was out of the question. So why am I out on this cold, clear morning, looking ...

Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too. The discovery casts a whole new light on the way deer ...

White-tailed deer are not as large as most people think. The back of an adult deer is seldom more than waist-high on an adult person of average height. Typical weights in the autumn are 170 pounds for ...

Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that white-tailed deer leave behind glowing marks in the forest that are completely invisible to the human eye. Scrapes in the soil and rubs on ...

When I was a youngster growing up in Cherry Valley, several elder statesmen often took me deer hunting in the St. Francis River bottoms. There weren’t many deer in Cross County back then, so it was ...

The rub was just a scratch on an skinny aspen sapling. But the diminutive buck sign clearly had my buddy Tom, a veteran big-woods deer hunter, excited. The two of us spread out to look for other ...

Just after daylight on a recent morning, I was sitting in a blind on Bobby Parker’s Camp Verde Ranch when a really nice buck with 13 typical points and beams that turn down on the ends walked down the ...

Long known for communicating through scent and sound, learn how deer may also be using photoluminescence to advertise their presence and mating status. Single deer may not strike up a conversation to ...