At almost every stage of life, the butterflies are threatened by climate change, habitat degradation, and increased use of neonicotinoid pesticides. At the same time, monarchs flourished in habitats that people made particularly habitable.

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At almost every stage of life, the butterflies are threatened by climate change, habitat degradation, and increased use of neonicotinoid pesticides. At the same time, monarchs flourished in habitats that people made particularly habitable.
Bay Nature’s illustrated almanac for summer 2022.
Snakes, frogs, eagles and owls thrive next to the planes at Bay Area airports.
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Large carcasses can’t just be wiped up. What are the other options?
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Erica Spotswood, the science director of the San Francisco Estuary Institute’s Urban Nature Lab, got her dissertation studying seed dispersal on the French Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Moorea. A kind of low-growing fruit tree named Miconia calvescens had arrived … Read more
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Newts carry enough toxin to kill a dozen people. Yet in the Bay Area garter snakes feast on them without harm.