The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Wow!  Eric took some striking photos of featherduster worms last weekend.  This is Serpula columbiana , a marine worm that lives in a wh...

    Eric photographed this beautiful featherduster worm ( Eudistylia vancouveri ) in Bodega Harbor earlier this week. Happy Fourth of July...

    Quite a few folks guessed correctly that last night's mystery close-up (above) is a worm tube.  Here's the entire tube as we fou...

    Okay, have you been wondering about the Turquoise Dragon and her developing larvae?  (See posts on 24 July 2023 and 29 July 2023 .) Th ...

    As you’ll recall, last week Eric’s class found an amazing reproductive worm swimming in the plankton (see " Turquoise dragon !...

  Last week, Eric’s summer class collected plankton tows in Bodega Bay and examined them under the microscope.   One of the students (Pach...