A money spider (Tenuiphantes sp.) balloons, under controlled conditions, from its daisy perch. You can see the trichobothria (leg hairs) and dragline silk in this picture. (Michael Hutchinson via ...

Crab season aboard Khevin Mellegers’ boat, the Areona. This spring was his second time trying out experimental “pop-up” crab pots. (Courtesy of Khevin Mellegers) The first time Half Moon Bay crabber ...

As I traipsed barefoot along Ocean Beach’s chilly February sand, ankle-high clumps of spume trembled in the breeze along the tideline, drawing me toward the surf. Upon closer inspection, the mounds of ...

After an absence of many decades, Chinook salmon swim up the Guadalupe River in San José most winters. The fish look for places to lay eggs and often find them. If there’s enough water left in the dry ...

A bobcat visits a camera trap at the Younger Lagoon wetland, part of the UC Natural Reserve System. (Photo by kellymorimoto, iNaturalist Creative Commons) As humans, we have a tendency to be big and ...

The following is adapted from the Napa River Historical Ecology Atlas, a new book by Robin Grossinger, director of the Historical Ecology Program at the San Francisco Estuary Institute. The book is ...

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. In these famous lines from a poem he wrote more than 200 years ago, William Blake reminds us of the ...

Bumblebees and other native bees were long ignored by farmers because they produce little or no honey and don’t form large, portable colonies like honeybees do. But the true importance of bees is ...