The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Eric spotted these tiny flies hovering among the grasses in a coastal prairie site up in Mendocino County on 11 September 2022.  Althoug...

    Wow, what a fly!  I had to do some work in the dunes today.  As I was walking back I noticed this fly landing on the sand.  Even from a ...

    We were leaving for work this morning when Eric spotted this interesting fly on the door to our house. It looks like it's probably a...

Recently I was trying to photograph some very small bees.  When I'm doing this, I'm often following the blur of a bee in flight.  I ...

I need to correct a mistake in last night's post.  I called the Coyote Brush flowers male, but I've realized now that the flowers in...

Air temperatures in Bodega Bay reached ~56 ° F (~13 ° C) this afternoon.  After a week of rain, it seemed like a lot of insects were taking ...