The Natural History of Bodega Head

    We worked the low tides in Monterey County during the last couple of days.  Here's a fun caterpillar we encountered along the trail ...

    I was helping Emma and Fern scout some potential research sites this afternoon (9 July 2022) and we started to notice some Western Tusso...

It's been in the upper 70s during the last few days, and butterflies have been passing through our yard.  Yesterday (1 April 2018), a Gu...

I was trimming some branches on a shrub outside of our house, and was surprised to encounter this:   Okay, that's an extreme clos...

Here's a bit of a mystery.  Can you guess what caused this pattern on the leaf of the Coast Buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium) ?   ...

Just a short little story about a caterpillar and its host plant. If you ever come across a silken nest of everlasting or cudweed flowers....