So fun! It was a treat to poke around the fire trails for all things tiny and eight-legged. We saw turret spiders’ holes, crab spiders, and many others. And finally, at the very end of the hike we saw ...

Here is the best from Bay Nature’s newsroom this year: the stories that delighted us, enraged us, got us outside, got us ...

Later this year, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—Indigenous people whose ancestors lived throughout the river valleys that stretch inland from Monterey Bay—will reclaim land within the tribe’s historical ...

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 ...

A less-frequently spotted Vespula in our area: the forest yellowjacket (Vespula acadica). (Tony Tiwane via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) Ask almost anyone about yellowjackets; they will have a harrowing tale ...

This article is from bioGraphic, an independent magazine about nature and regeneration powered by the California Academy of Sciences. I see my first sunflower sea star in a plastic container barely ...

Monarchs roost on a eucalyptus tree at Moran Lake in Santa Cruz. (Stuart Weiss, Ph.D.) Audrey Fusco can’t help getting excited at the sight of one monarch butterfly these days. In the spring sun in ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

Along the marsh’s edge at Cache Creek Nature Preserve, 20 miles northwest of Sacramento, Diana Almendariz harvests bundles of tule (Schoenoplectus acutus)— green, smooth cylinders up to 10 feet high.