Check out the incredible extravaganza of insects at the Randall Museum’s popular Bug Day event celebrating everything insect with hands-on science and art activities, games, live music, movies and more. Learn more here. Join in the creepy-crawly fun and learn … Read more
March 26, 2024 •
Talk: The Building Blocks to Resilience of California’s Grasslands to Fire and Drought
October 3, 2023 •
This talk will review recent findings on how California’s grasslands will respond to environmental changes, especially fires and droughts, and the management approaches that can enhance the resilience of these grasslands to multiple changes. Valerie Eviner is a professor of … Read more
New Colony of a Rare Stingless Bee, Once Presumed Absent from California, Found By a Four-Year-Old in Palo Alto
June 3, 2021 •
Entomologists thought the Brazilian bee Plebeia emerina had disappeared in California in the 1950s. But two colonies were rediscovered in Palo Alto in 2013, and now a four-year-old has found two more.
The Importance of Having Insects
May 1, 2019 •
A number of sensational new papers warn of a global insect die-off. Has the apocalypse arrived in Northern California?