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    Entomologists have a lot of explaining to do, and not just about their life choices! With a million plus (and counting), species of ...

  If you had asked me if I liked bugs when I was a kid, I would have looked at you suspiciously. I mean, a potato bug (Jerusalem cricket), once sc...

Blue-banded bees (Amegilla cingulata) on a mountain devil (Lambertia formosa).  Illustration by Rachel Diaz-Bastin.   Honeybees get a lot of buzz...

It was a typical misty morning in Golden Gate Park when entomologist Kristen Vollrath spotted a fluffy white insect ambling about on a concrete bar...

Take a good look at this golden scarab beetle, Chrysina resplendens…   Probably the most ridiculously golden beetle ever, right? Now what if I to...

  mmmmmmm chocolate, just the thought of it is enough to make me float off to my happy place, a magical land full of cacoa nib fairies, loose pan...

(Repost): Original Post: https://baynature.org/article/those-bugs-swimming-pool-save-them-for-science/  Jere Schweikert, an entomologist at the Ca...

(Repost): Original Post: https://baynature.org/article/tracking-ghosts/   From under the shade of an oak tree, deep in the forests of the Blue Oa...

(Repost): Original Post: https://baynature.org/2014/02/27/whats-small-ladybug-like-golden/ This week’s Ask the Naturalist was sent in by Arlene Ni...

In the insect world butterflies definitely get all the good press, they are the charismatic microfauna, the tiny pandas, the gleaming ambassadors ...

Take a stroll through nature on a sunny day and you might hear a variety of birds calling, bees buzzing, goats yelling, and squirrels making squir...

Next time you are in the garden, and you see something that resembles a tiny, flying rainbow whiz by, rest assured you are not hallucinating! The ...