Even experts sometimes struggle to distinguish western pond turtles from common pond sliders.
Tag: inaturalist
Urban Nature
iNaturalist Strikes Out on Its Own
With the help of a $10 million startup grant iNaturalist has separated from the California Academy of Sciences and National Geographic Society and become its own independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Science and Nature
How Your Beach Photos Are Helping CA Scientists: Snapshot Cal Coast 2022
This year’s Snapshot Cal Coast featured 4,083 people logging 46,683 observations of almost 4,000 species into the iNaturalist app from June 13 to July 4.
Wildlife
New Colony of a Rare Stingless Bee, Once Presumed Absent from California, Found By a Four-Year-Old in Palo Alto
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.
Wildlife
After More Than One Million Nature Observations Worldwide, the Most Common Sighting Was …
After 50,000 people made nearly 1.3 million observations worldwide, what was the most common species found in the Bay Area and in the world?
Wildlife
The City Nature Challenge, Modified, Returns
The global species-finding competition returns on April 24, minus the competition.
Wildlife
Nature “Without Us” … Looks Like Nature With Us?
It’s hard not to wonder if maybe it’s the people that have changed, and not the animals.
Science and Nature
Connect With Nature from Your Home
A social distancing-approved reading list and other indoor nature activities
Fall Issue 2019
The New Naturalists
There’s a resurgence in exploring and documenting nature worldwide
Fall Issue 2019
Face-to-Face With Mining Bees
The mining bee family Andrenidae is tough to get to know. They are, for all this, among our most common wild bees.
