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Bug Day

March 26, 2024 • by Genevieve

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

New Colony of a Rare Stingless Bee, Once Presumed Absent from California, Found By a Four-Year-Old in Palo Alto

June 3, 2021 • by Robin Gwen Agarwal

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 • by Eric Simons

A number of sensational new papers warn of a global insect die-off. Has the apocalypse arrived in Northern California?