From Tidepools to Tracking, Our Favorite Events of 2025
As the events program expanded this year, we got out all over the Bay Area, bringing Bay Nature stories to life.
Tag: invertebrates
Naturalist’s Notebook: Electrostatic Flight
How spiders take flight, without any wind to help.
What Lives, and Dies, on Tule Mats
A woman and her students weave a world of life for mosquito predators.
After the Algal Bloom Cleared Out of Lake Merritt, the Nudibranchs Came to Party in Droves
Oodles of nudibranchs showed up in Lake Merritt after the harmful algal bloom of August 2022. These sea slugs appeared in record breaking numbers, taking Oakland's beloved tidal lagoon by...
Spooky, Scary Scorpions? Actually, Not So Much. (You Aren’t Worth the Venom.)
A little too hairy and a little too pinchy to classify as charismatic, scorpions strike fear in the hearts of many—through no fault of their own. A scorpion expert sets...
The Eyes of the Sea Star
We’re used to bodies having front and back, top and bottom, left and right. But as some common California tidepool creatures show, there’s a totally different way of living.
What’s Small, Ladybug-Like, and Golden All Over?
A few years ago a Bay Nature reader spotted something golden and shiny on her carpet. Suspecting it was a piece of jewelry she picked it up, only to find...
Biggest Local Land Invertebrate? The Tarantula
Q: What's the largest underground-dwelling invertebrate in the Bay Area? How does it live?
Learn to Look for Them, and California’s Unique “Turret Spiders” are Everywhere
Tiny turret spiders, hiding in their silk-lined tunnels near your favorite trail, hold geologic secrets in their genes.
